MARINATING OUR WAY THROUGH THIS SUMMER!

Don’t say we didn’t have fun! By the time you read this, Labor Day may in fact have already passed. (Hopefully, it wasn’t a smoky/rainy/stormymess) And… summer may seem almost over, but it is not!

Vince Lionetti from Freedom Boat Club with yours truly getting the Summer in!

There are still several summer weekends,
autumn weekends,
Indian summer weekends,
second Indian summer weekends,
Dressed up like it’s still summer Halloween weekend,
halfway decent November weekend,
and alas… A 70-degree Lighted Boat Parade Weekend!

By then… hopefully, we all had some fun!

Bumpers Versus Fenders!

My whole life I have called a group of white plastic balloons that sit on the side of your boat to avoid damage, bumpers or fenders.

I have heard them called both. However, I now know the difference. Just like a car, bumpers are on the front and back. Fenders are always on the side.

So … If your white plastic balloon is being used on your bow or on your transom it should be called a bumper. If you are rafted up alongside friends, then your white plastic balloons are fenders!

A CUPULA QUICK JOKES

We don’t normally get to say coupula unless you’re going out with some friends and to have a cupula beers!

1. From a passenger ship, one can see a bearded man on a small island who is
shouting and desperately waving his hands. “Who is that?” a passenger asks the captain. “I have no idea but every week when we pass, he goes crazy like that.

2. Sailor Johnny was sitting on a dock bench, having his lunch!

Today he chose six bars of chocolate. A man walked up and noticed Sailor Johnny devouring the sweets.

“Son,” said the man, “eating too much candy isn’t good for you.”

“My grandfather lived to be 100,” Sailor Johnny replies.

“Did he eat six chocolate bars a day, too?” the man asks.

“No,” said Sailor Johnny, “He minded his own damn business!”

3. A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, doctor! I think I’m
going deaf.”

And the doctor says, “Can you describe the symptoms.”

” Sure I love them, Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie and Bart. Been watching them for years…”

MY CRAB SOUP RECIPE:

Many years ago when I was a caterer I developed a crab soup recipe that over the years has gotten a lot of compliments! Here is that recipe.

• 1 lb beef cubes w/ fat
• 1 lb Hand-Picked Claw
• 3 lbs Mixed Vegetables
• 1 16oz Jar of Prego w/ Meat Flavor
• Old Bay

Brown beef cubes in two inches of water. (You are boiling the flavor out)

Add 1 jar of Prego.

Fill jar of Prego twice with water and add to pot

Add 3 lbs of mixed vegetables and bring to a boil

Add 1 lb of Hand-Picked Claw and Old Bay to taste

Let simmer for an additonal 15 Minutes.

Should take 1 hour start to finish!!!