Teak
Table
Elegant Entertaining on Your Boat
Entertaining onboard does not need to mean elaborate menus, mountains of dishes or spending the evening tucked away in the galley. Teak Table is about making people feel welcome — beautifully, practically and without missing the evening.
From serving pieces that earn their storage space to pantry shortcuts, easy sauces and unfussy recipes, this is my collection of ideas for putting something lovely on the table and then actually sitting down to enjoy it.
Entertaining That Still Lets You Enjoy the Evening
Teak Table is full of the things I actually want when people are coming onboard: smart serving pieces, ingredients that keep, shortcuts that still feel special and food that looks as though you tried much harder than you did.
Set the Table
Serving pieces, linens, trays and compact entertaining gear chosen for real boat storage and real gatherings.
Stock the Galley
Shelf-stable sauces, pantry helpers and flavour shortcuts that make it easier to pull a meal together away from the dock.
Serve Something Good
Simple recipes, sauces and make-it-easier ideas for meals that feel generous without becoming a galley marathon.
Just Enough to Set the Table
A glimpse at the serving ideas, clever shortcuts and recipes inside.
Tools of the Trade
Pieces that earn their cupboard space.
Hot Sauces
Fast flavour without the fuss.
Shelf-Stable Sauces
Good things to keep onboard.
Salish Stuffed Peppers
An easy supper with plenty of personality.
Boaters Who Love Having People Onboard
For the host(ess) who wants the table to feel considered without turning dinner into a performance. For the boater who appreciates beautiful things that are also practical. And for anyone who believes entertaining is really about making room for people to linger.
The Table Is Where the Stories Happen.
For me, entertaining onboard has never been about perfection. It is about making people feel welcome.
I love a beautiful table, but I also want to be sitting at it. Over the years I have learned which pieces are worth finding room for, which ingredients make life easier and which shortcuts nobody needs to know were shortcuts.
I wrote Teak Table for the way we actually entertain on boats: limited storage, compact galleys, changing plans and friends who somehow always stay for one more story.
One Boat. Three Parts of the Good Life.
Each book stands on its own, but together they cover the galley, the docktail and the table — the practical rituals that make time onboard feel like your own.
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Get the Complete CollectionUse the Good Dishes.
Keep the ideas, recipes and entertaining shortcuts close at hand on your tablet or device for the next dinner, impromptu gathering or long evening around the table.
