Not Much Cooking!
New Utensils
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Olive-wood servers from Turkey and a new basting brush.
The only new gadgets in my kitchen in July. |
New Magnets
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| I removed many magnets to make room for my new ones. |
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New magnets from Greece and Turkey.
You can see what I found: mainly images of birds, especially owls.
You can also see that my little plant survived my absence. |
A Few Meals Before the Big Trip
The Ship's Kitchen
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| The door to the ship’s kitchen. |
“My kitchen” this July means not only the kitchen where I live in Ann Arbor, but also the kitchen of the National Geographic/Lindblad Orion where we spent 10 days while visiting Greek islands in the Mediterranean and three ancient sites in Turkey.
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| A peek down the stairs towards the extensive storage areas for food and equipment. |
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| Just before breakfast: the waiters would bring the food from the kitchen up to the dining area on the rear deck. |
What Kitchen Did this Come From?
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| Not-bad airline meal while flying home. |
Not Food: Toadstools
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Life follows art. A ceramic toadstool surrounded by live ones.
(Do not eat this!) |
Blog post © 2025 mae sander
Shared with Sherry’s In My Kitchen for July
22 comments:
I think we already have more kitchen tools and gadgets than we need; in fact, I don’t think so, I know so! More is certainly not on the agenda!
Oh wow, those magnets are so cool! I really need to get some for on my whiteboard. And the toadstool picture reminds me of the fact that I took a picture of toadstools here recently too.
I need a new basting brush. Mine is not in good shape. I like yours. And nice magnets. I love that you have lots of owls. And can I come and eat at your house? Grin. Is that mushroom ceramic or real? It's very cool. hugs-Erika
Very nice tools and magnets. All the food looks amazing. Nice to see the ships kitchen. Have a nice weekend.
A fun post!
Seems like all i have done is cook this month, but i haven't taken many photos, it seems.
Magnets are a great souvenir! A reminder of your trip every time you open the fridge.
The Cheese Toast looks so delicious! I love the collection of magnets. Good to be here. Stay connected. Hugs.
Love your new salad servers - what a great momento of your travels. Your airline food looked so good, was that in business? And hope you had a fab cruise and that Greece and Turkey weren't too hot. Happy August!
Hello Mae,
All the food looks delicious. I love your owl magnets.
The airline food looks tasty! Take care, Happy Friday! Have a great weekend.
I love your olive wood server. Those are stunning. And your magnets make me smile. You need to make a wall in your house magnetized so you can put all of them up! The food looks great and fun seeing the ship kitchen too.
I love olive wood and i have several utensils. Love your magnets; and i have heaps of those on my fridge. I try to change them now and again. How marvellous to go to turkiye and greece! We did go to greece many years ago as backpackers - quite the adventure. Imagine planning meals and supplies for thousands of passengers on a cruise! wow. Thanks for joining in, and see you next month. Cheers Sherry
@Sherry -- The National Geographic Orion can accommodate around 100 passengers max, but our trip only had around 80 passengers. We did see some of those gigantic ships but would never choose to travel on one of them.
Those olive wood servers are lovely! We took a cruise with similar itinerary 12 years ago (feels like yesterday) and it was really memorable. I might hesitate to visit Turkey right now. Magnets are always a fun souvenir and a light weight one. As we are getting older, we want to carry less and less and truthfully I starting to get rid of instead of collecting. Although something for the kitchen is always tempting. I love the bowl that you served the fruit salad in. Have a great week.
That's cool that you got to examine the kitchen on your ship. Sounds like a cool trip!
Your food is always spectacular, but it was quite interesting to see the ship's kitchen! Your trip sounds wonderful.
Wow. You sure were a busy lady and what fun to see Turkey and Greece by cruising. Saw your post at the Sunday Salon. Look for me there too. Nancy Andres @ Colors 4 Health.
I have a basting brush exactly like that.
I also collect magnets and have some on my fridge.
I love cheese bread, chicken curry, and fruit salad!
I have a lot of photos of the kitchen and bridge/command deck from the cruise I took with may daughter and grandson in '19.
I have a toadstool birdbath that looks similar to yours.
I hope you have a great week!
Magnets are always a wonderful reminder of trips taken, and they are easily carted to and fro. It's amazing to me that you had such wonderful meals made out of that small kitchen on the ship.
All that food looks so yummy!!!!!
We like to collect magnets on our travels too. And Pandora charms and Christmas decorations if possible.
I love the ceramic toadstool. So amazing that you can get to visit the ships kitchen. And those Olive-wood servers are so pretty :)
Gotta love a cheese toastie! I meant to say that brizzle basting brush comes from Dreamfarm which is just up the road from us!
A great foodie month across the world this month! The olive food servers look like animal claws. And I am so impressed by your fridget magnets and the tiny plant. That summer fruit salad makes me wish for summer and the tart in the plane food looks so pretty and delicious. And you made it impossible to resist checking out some of your travel posts - it looks amazing
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