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Puff Pastry | Fearless recipe

During our stay in Grande Prairie. I was interested to make a french dessert called ‘Pithiviers’ or ‘Pithivier’. The recipe needs puff pastry. I prefer to do homemade Puff Pastry and so I searched for a good quality recipe for a while. Eventually I got an original recipe from Pastry Chef Bo Friberg. In the recipe it advised to use bread flour but I decided …

March 3, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Puff Pastry, Puff pastry recipe

Tart pan Coffee cake

– Early this month I just about lost my marbles when I tried to make a coffee cake like a cinnamon swirl I had from Starbucks. It seems I got a scam recipe from the internet. The menu of coffee cake today I got the original recipe from Mama’s gotta bake/Too big to fail/1959 LAUSD Sour cream coffee cake/From the Los Angeles Times. I am …

February 20, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Coffee cake recipe, Cooking along the recipe, sour cream, Sour cream coffee cake, sour cream coffee cake recipe, Tart pan

Another scones recipe you may like

Greetings from Grande Prairie, When we first arrived in Grande Prairie during the first week in February the weather was very cold and dry with minus 20, 30. We did not go to the grocery store as often as I wish for. Today I present the scones to have with coffee or tea. This recipe use buttermilk and the feature is likely hotel style. Someone …

February 17, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Grande Prairie, scones recipe, the recipe

Port of Origin, now applied.

The important to put on a stern city sticker We have added a sticker of Prince Rupert to the stern. This sticker was made more than 10 years ago but never used, but it still works. So it is now legal for cruising in any foreign country. The sticker I choose to put on in the calm day and without wind and current. Prince Rupert …

February 17, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Cruising BC, Canada, Do-It-Yourself, port of origin, prince rupert

Mast steps # Re do it again

Change from the Weak to Strong. Last week Stephen took all the mast steps off and re-install them back one by one step with 70 new bolts. To re do this task a second time because one mast step had fall down. Which meant that 70 rivets had to be drilled out, the steps re-drilled, the mast re-drilled and tapped for the bolt threads and …

January 28, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / anchor chains, Boat and Sailing, Cruising BC, Canada, Do-It-Yourself, the mast steps

Cabin book shelf and more …| New completed (Do that in Fiji) Projects of new year 2014

Do it yourself Cabin book shelf Galley : Do it yourself plate shelf Front cabin

Cabin stowage net before that doesn’t work so we build an extra wood to store clothes. Now it is work.

Dear Readers and friends, Our blog is updating again for the first post of 2014. In past December the weather out here was rain and continued with winter …

January 15, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Do-It-Yourself, prince rupert

Mount Hays | Winter Adventure

Regarding to follow up the previous post of The view of Prince Rupert from the airplane. Today I have a chance to walk from sea level up to the top of Mount Hays to see the view of Prince Rupert city and harbour and hike down. It takes time about 5-6 hours walking. It is a sunshine day after it rains with storm winds so …

December 19, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Golden Retrievers, Mount Hays, prince rupert, Supernatural British Columbia, winter

North America continental divided

The Rockies mountains range is dividing Alberta (flatlands) and British Columbia Hi there! I have photos from our trip between Prince Rupert and Northern Alberta. They show clearly the divide between the Flat Prairies that cover much of Western Canada and our own very Mountainous BC. When comparing to driving, traveling by air you see more of a total picture of this country. From the …

December 4, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Grande Prairie, The Rockies mountains range

Hot oven ‘Freshly baked croissants’

The Croissant recipe (Classic French Croissant Recipe from weekend bakery.com) 500 g French Type 55 flour or unbleached all purpose flour / plain flour (extra for dusting), I use all purpose flour ‘Robinhood’ 140 g Water 140 g Whole milk (you can take it straight from the fridge) 55 g sugar 40 g soft unsalted butter 11 g instant yeast 12 g salt, *** I use only …

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November 23, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Grande Prairie

Patience and Waiting

Greetings from the tropical paradise of Prince Rupert, So our beloved blog has been quiet for one month. We finally decided not to leave Prince Rupert until 2014. We wished we can do it within this year but every time we set to leave there was another delaying problem coming up. Waiting is painful but the focus has not changed. We also can check …

October 31, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC boating, Boat and Sailing, city of prince rupert, Cruising BC, Canada, Cruising world, Dufour 35, prince rupert, Sailing & cruising the BC coast, Sailing blog cruising, Sailing west coast Canada

Four days on the hard

We finally motor Beautiful Swimmer and hauled out this week in Port Edward. A boat lift can tell that Beautiful Swimmer weight about 10.5 tons = 9,525 kilograms = 21,000 pounds) We wash and clean the barnacles, muscles and weed off, it have been two years we did not take her out to clean and paint. To bring her to the boat yard cost about …

September 18, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC boating, Boat and Sailing, boat lift, Cruising BC, Canada, Cruising world, Dufour 35, On the hard, Port Edward, prince rupert, sailboat bottom paint, sailboat propeller, Sailing, Sailing & cruising the BC coast, Sailing blog cruising, Sailing west coast Canada, water maker, water valves

‘September’ Time of change

In the beginning of September most commercial boat in Prince Rupert stop fishing and our favourite fish and chips shop ‘Bob on the Rock’ just closed and will reopen again in the next summer. Seeing our dock friends leave to go back home including our new challenge sailors friends makes us understand we must leave soon as well. The weather is good and we have …

September 7, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC boating, Boat and Sailing, Cruising BC, Canada, Cruising world, Dufour 35, prince rupert, Sailing & cruising the BC coast, sailing association, Sailing blog cruising, Sailing west coast Canada, sailors, travel, water maker

Challenge sailors docked in Prince Rupert

During this week at our Prince Rupert dock. We have an opportunity to meet with new overseas sailors who have docked here and have shared their experiences with us. Edvin Borgen from blog A Passage through Ice http://belzebub2.com/ The young Swedish challenge sailor recently exploring a new route through the Arctic. He just arrived in Prince Rupert alone late in August with his boat Belzebub …

August 30, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, belzebub2.com, Boat and Sailing, Cruising BC, Canada, http://bidule.micro.org, http://www.jonathanadventuresailing.com, Northwest passage, Sailing, travel

Ocean view for appetite & our new plan

We don’t want to change our plan to the south pacific from 2013 to year 2014 but if it have too… so we then have to wait for next year 2014. We are still waiting for my immigration papers that are now 2 months overdue. Now our work have not much left to do but boat is always have things that you must to make …

August 23, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Boat refitting, Cooking on board, outdoors, Prince Rupert Harbour, salmon

Sailboat – D.I.Y. refrigerator/freezer

Hello there! & how are you? Regarding to the boat galley which did not have a refrigerator and we wanted to have one in the galley. At least now we can get a cool drink :-). The process was to build a small refrigerator (also a freezer) with a power produce by wind generator and solar panel that charge the battery. Staying at the private …

August 20, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / BC boating, Boat and Sailing, Cooking on board, Cruising world, Do-It-Yourself, Dufour 35, fridge freezer, prince rupert, Sailboat refit, Sailing & cruising the BC coast, Sailing blog cruising, Sailing west coast Canada, salmon, small refrigerator

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