March has been a great month in our lives. As soon as our vaccinations were
effective, we drove from our home (which we have not left in over a year) to
visit our family in Fairfax, Virginia. While visiting, I have been cooking jointly with
my daughter Evelyn and granddaughter Alice and son-in-law Tom. It’s been a pleasure! I’m starting this post about their kitchen with the 3-D printed hedgehog
and celebratory champagne flutes on display in their kitchen bookcase.
Evelyn has taught courses in math applications of 3-D printing, and the
hedgehog was printed by some of her students.
I intend this post to be shared with other bloggers in the great
kitchen-sharing that takes place every month. I’ve been taking photos of
what is in the kitchen here: it’s so great to be out of my own kitchen for
a while. I am especially featuring their great electric devices like the Air
Fryer and the Instant Pot. To see what other bloggers are sharing this
month, check out
http://sherryspickings.blogspot.com/
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Alice and I chopped a lot of mushrooms for a
mushroom-filled pastry dish. |
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| And we chopped lots of ginger and scallions for soup. |
Evelyn and Tom’s Air Fryer
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Air Fryer broccoli.
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Great as it is, and much as I’ve enjoyed eating these dishes that Evelyn and Tom cooked, I don’t think that an air fryer is right for me in my own kitchen, mainly because I lack the space for it. The same goes for the next device: the instant pot ...
Yogurt in the Instant Pot
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Evelyn’s yogurt starter is named Ivan.
She makes yogurt from Ivan every week.
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Evelyn’s Instant Pot: making her very delicious yogurt.
Blog post © 2021 mae sander
Ivan starter...how cute! Those fried dumplings look so good.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you were able to visit family and enjoy all that fun kitchen time Mae. You must be in seventh heaven for sure. That yogurt reminds me I should make some. Have a wonderful rest of your visit.
ReplyDeleteThat hedgehog is great, I love it ! I don't have many appliances in my kitchen but I do love my Thermomix, I use it sometimes several times a day :) Thanks for sharing !
ReplyDeleteCongrats on completing the vaccination process! Your photos have made me hungry lol
ReplyDeleteEvelyn has such a great, welcoming smile! This is such a fun post and I can imagine being in someone else's kitchen was a great treat! I want to know more about the soup with ginger and scallions! So glad you have had this opportunity. I'm thinking lunch together can't be too far away!
ReplyDeleteGetting fully jabbed is such a relief, isn't it? I got my second last week, Mrs KR today. So in two weeks we can get out in the world again! Glad you can travel again. I keep thinking about getting an Instant Pot -- they do make sense to me.
ReplyDeleteLove the hedgehog, great things are made with the 3-D printer, I saw a cool one that a friend made that explained 2020 perfectly. Good you got both of your vaccinations and did some visiting. Bill was done with it long ago, in 2 weeks I get my second one.
ReplyDeleteI got rid of Instant Pot and air fryer followed shortly afterwards. Too bulky to deal with and clean and...
so much delicious food Mae! and how wonderful that you could leave home at last. our lockdown (for 3 days) is ending early at midday - so in 53 minutes. Yay! so we can have easter after all. i'm not even sure what an air fryer does? Fry?? Have a marvellous Easter/Passover/whatever you do or don't celebrate:-)
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sherry
isn't 3D printing amazing? they will be able to - or maybe already do - make personalised limbs and things for disabled people. Marvellous!
ReplyDeleteThese are two kitchen appliances I also don't have and doubt I ever will. Enjoy all these kitchen moments.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to peep into your daughter's kitchen. I love the idea of using an instant pot for yoghurt. And very impressed with that shitaki mushroom soup.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on completing your vaccination programme. The roll out is very slow here.
Regards, Francesca. www.almostitalian.blog
Very much enjoyed get a bird's eye view of your kitchen. I absolutely love my air fryer. It is the hardest working device in my kitchen.
ReplyDeleteLucky you to be able to leave. I'm happy for you. I've been on lockdown for so long and don't go anywhere or have anyone over. I will live vicariously through your trips now that you have been vaccinated. Now tey've opened up the age limit in my state, after I got my phone and internet back online, I called to try for an appointment. I can't try again until Saturday.
ReplyDeleteI also wouldn't have room for one, but I think Sally bought an air fryer. Glad you got to use it, though.
This was fun Mae! I enjoyed the kitchen tour and absolutely love that it has a bookshelf! Cooking with your daughter and granddaughter sounds heavenly. I did not know you could make yogurt in an instant pot. We have one in our Florida home. I’m not much for small appliances (such as anything more complicated than the toaster) , my husband is the exact opposite, so the instant pot is really his! I’ll ask for homemade yogurt when we get to go back there (so far he has managed to resist buying a duplicate for our kitchen here in Oregon.).
ReplyDeleteYep can't be without an airfryer or intantpot. This is a great post.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos and it's nice to visit with family! We just bought that same electric kettle. I love it.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to finally get to see your family after all this time.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking about an air fryer, but I think I will wait a bit longer before I decide for sure!
Ah nice, adore absolutely adore the hedgehog. So cool and cute. Good to read you had your vaccinations and were able to see family. We are still waiting for ours. Mushroom Ginger soup sounds lovely and that is a compliment coming from someone who is not that keen on mushrooms, YOur chips chopper reminded me of my childhood, my parents had one of those gadgets once upon a time. i remember them being quite funky at the time and all the rage. Evelyn making yogurt, also took me back to another memory - my mother still makes yogurt by storing it in warm spots in the home, it used to be near a central heater. This such a lovely post that brought back memories of my own.
ReplyDeleteFun to get out and about.
ReplyDeleteI'm planning a trip to pick up my dad this weekend (we're all three weeks out from our 2nd dose). Can't wait. I also can't wait to visit other family member's kitchens again. Hope to do that Mother's Day.
ReplyDeleteBe safe and well! LOVE the hedgehog!
Congratulations! How wonderful to see your family and cook in someone else's kitchen. We had the first visitors in our kitchen this past month as well. It was pure joy and you can see that in your daughter's smile as well. We have both the electric pressure cooker (which I use almost exclusively in the cold weather) and the air fryer (which I use almost every day). It does take up counter space but saves me turning on the oven for a single item. So wonderful to see your post!
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