Rare rafinmd Posted August 11, 2021 #1576 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Today's sunrise is from my 2011 Prinsendam North Cape and Arctic cruise. On August 11 we visited Bergen Norway: Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 11, 2021 #1577 Share Posted August 11, 2021 The Panomax image is beautiful right now: https://crystal-cruises.panomax.com/ Roy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 11, 2021 #1578 Share Posted August 11, 2021 14 hours ago, BEAV said: Does the Chez partner with DoorDash? To California? Sure, but you have to choose their "delivery in 2 to 7 days" option. And the free green crust on the patties will scrape right off. It'll be fine, trust me. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 11, 2021 #1579 Share Posted August 11, 2021 7 hours ago, BWIVince said: Beautiful! Is that a potato roll bun? I’m minutes away from opening a bag of Martin’s to make breakfast. Vince Absolutely, Martin's is just the best for burgers. Did you know that's what Shake Shack uses? Guess they figured if it's good enough for the Chez... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWIVince Posted August 11, 2021 #1580 Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, KenzSailing said: Absolutely, Martin's is just the best for burgers. Did you know that's what Shake Shack uses? Guess they figured if it's good enough for the Chez... I didn't know that! I wouldn't be surprised if they did... You're the EF Hutton of most culinary topics! I love them too, for a lot of uses. My store stopped carrying the slider size though, which I found really useful. 😞 Vince 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 12, 2021 #1581 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Today's sunrise is from my 2018 Grand Alaska-Panama trip. On August 12 Crystal Symphony was at sea from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas Roy 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 13, 2021 #1582 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Today's sunrise is from my 2018 Grand Alaska/Panama journey. On August 13 the Crystal Symphony visited Cabo San Lucas: Roy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 14, 2021 #1583 Share Posted August 14, 2021 This is probably my first and definitely oldest sunrise (I think) photo. It was taken on the SS Rotterdam on August 14, 1997, my first HAL cruise. I was thinking I had lost the metadata but then realized it was a film camera and there was no such thing. It was taken after our stop in Ketchikan and before our galley tour on the last sea day so while it was probably sunrise August 14 it might have been sunset August 13. Roy 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 14, 2021 #1584 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Kitchen koan: If one has not this skillet Has one really cooked 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 15, 2021 #1585 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Today's sunrise is from a 2015 Blount Cruise from Portland ME to Saint John NB. On August 15 Grande Caribe visited Bath, ME. Roy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 15, 2021 #1586 Share Posted August 15, 2021 12 minutes ago, drib said: I'm going to answer a question in another topic here because I promised that I wouldn't have the last word there. @sierrafloridacruiser, I hope you will find me here. I think you are certainly correct that a Caribbean cruise is not price gouging in the legal sense. I was just using those words to express outrage, colorfully ... although I still think the fares as shown on the Crystal web site could be an error - some kind of -rhythm, because that's happened before on what they now call their legacy system. Took me a sec. You win all of today's clever points. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskatiemae Posted August 15, 2021 #1587 Share Posted August 15, 2021 18 hours ago, KenzSailing said: Kitchen koan: If one has not this skillet Has one really cooked I'm sure you and OLoPP have many happy memories of chops and such having sailed through that pan-port. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 15, 2021 #1588 Share Posted August 15, 2021 One year from right now we plan to be boarding Crystal Serenity in LA. For us, that constitutes "right around the corner." That's the plan, anyway. TWT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Catlover54 Posted August 16, 2021 #1589 Share Posted August 16, 2021 4 hours ago, KenzSailing said: One year from right now we plan to be boarding Crystal Serenity in LA. For us, that constitutes "right around the corner." That's the plan, anyway. TWT. The operative definition of "corner" has changed a lot since Covid. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierrafloridacruiser Posted August 16, 2021 #1590 Share Posted August 16, 2021 9 hours ago, KenzSailing said: Took me a sec. You win all of today's clever points. He does!! 🙌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Stickman1990 Posted August 16, 2021 #1591 Share Posted August 16, 2021 10 minutes ago, sierrafloridacruiser said: Drib, I don’t disagree with you that the pricing seems bizarrely high and could be an error. I’m fresh off the Endeavor’s second cruise and it was fabulous but…it was Iceland. No way in heck I’d part with that much cash for the Carribean You did of course also receive an additional effective 25% discount as a FCC in recognition of the lack of some facilities that were advertised as part of the cruise 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 16, 2021 #1592 Share Posted August 16, 2021 This is all my fault, but we're veering dangerously close to not being off-topic (IOW, being off-off-topic) on this here thread. So, to get us back on course (ha!): What's the best ketchup? Well, it's complicated. Heinz is of course the correct (US based) answer. But then I discovered Heinz Organic ketchup. It does taste better. Difference? It's sweetened with sugar, not corn syrup. (Commercial ketchup is basically processed tomatoes, sweetener and preservatives.) But I've just discovered Heinz make a product called "Simply Ketchup." It contains no sweetener. Never tasted it. But just found out Shake Shack uses it. I've saved the packets from today's lunch indulgence to do a thorough taste test. Results to follow. There, we're back off topic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierrafloridacruiser Posted August 16, 2021 #1593 Share Posted August 16, 2021 34 minutes ago, Stickman1990 said: You did of course also receive an additional effective 25% discount as a FCC in recognition of the lack of some facilities that were advertised as part of the cruise I did say cash, didn’t I? 😂 Well, I’m not parting with my FCC for the Caribbean either. It’s lovely, but I’m relatively new to the whole “let’s see the world” stage of my life and that’s one of the few areas I’ve been multiple times. I need to see Europe and the Mediterranean! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAV Posted August 16, 2021 #1594 Share Posted August 16, 2021 (edited) Bless you, Kenz. We can always count on you to put us back off topic.... Are you gonna use your new ketchup discovery on your famous Chez burgers? I sure hope so, ‘cause the Original Chez Burger I ordered on DoorDash this past week from MD to CA didn’t fare so well crossing the country. The delivery history on my DoorDash app shows it was handed off to 26 different Dashers before it made it to the Golden (and burning) State, and, eventually, my humble abode. Here’s what it looked like upon arrival...😢 Time for a 2nd try with your new found fancy ketchup. I don’t give up easy. Edited August 16, 2021 by BEAV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted August 16, 2021 #1595 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Today's sunrise is from the same cruise as yesterday. On August 16, 2015 Grande Caribe visited Rockland, Maine. Roy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenzSailing Posted August 16, 2021 #1596 Share Posted August 16, 2021 20 hours ago, BEAV said: Bless you, Kenz. We can always count on you to put us back off topic.... Are you gonna use your new ketchup discovery on your famous Chez burgers? I sure hope so, ‘cause the Original Chez Burger I ordered on DoorDash this past week from MD to CA didn’t fare so well crossing the country. The delivery history on my DoorDash app shows it was handed off to 26 different Dashers before it made it to the Golden (and burning) State, and, eventually, my humble abode. Here’s what it looked like upon arrival...😢 Time for a 2nd try with your new found fancy ketchup. I don’t give up easy. Beav, Hmmm, a burger joint called the Grazing Shed. Sounds like a mixed message to me. Nope, no ketchup on the burgers here at the Chez. Ketchup is for fries, cocktail sauce and OLoPP's meatloaf. On burgers (and a nice crispy fried chicken sandwich I make) I put Kenji Lopez-Alt's fry sauce: 1/2 cup mayo (Duke's if you can get it) 2 tbsp ketchup (OK, there's a little ketchup on the burger. Sue me) 1 tbsp yellow mustard 1 tbsp dill pickle juice 1/2 tsp sugar Optional: pinch of cayenne powder Stir to combine and away you go. It'll keep in the fridge for a couple weeks. Give it a try. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare May B Posted August 17, 2021 #1597 Share Posted August 17, 2021 23 hours ago, KenzSailing said: This is all my fault, but we're veering dangerously close to not being off-topic (IOW, being off-off-topic) on this here thread. So, to get us back on course (ha!): What's the best ketchup? Well, it's complicated. Heinz is of course the correct (US based) answer. But then I discovered Heinz Organic ketchup. It does taste better. Difference? It's sweetened with sugar, not corn syrup. (Commercial ketchup is basically processed tomatoes, sweetener and preservatives.) But I've just discovered Heinz make a product called "Simply Ketchup." It contains no sweetener. Never tasted it. But just found out Shake Shack uses it. I've saved the packets from today's lunch indulgence to do a thorough taste test. Results to follow. There, we're back off topic. Yikes. I sure wish I’d read this before we went to Shake Shack today! And we did not save ANY packets. We just gobbled up the ketchup with our French fries and nobody said a thing! Now I have to decide … mention it, or wait until the next time we go, and bring it up casually/innocently? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Roland4 Posted August 17, 2021 #1598 Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, May B said: Yikes. I sure wish I’d read this before we went to Shake Shack today! And we did not save ANY packets. We just gobbled up the ketchup with our French fries and nobody said a thing! Now I have to decide … mention it, or wait until the next time we go, and bring it up casually/innocently? Actually, we have come to prefer French's Ketchup. Switched to it for purely "jingoistic" purposes when Heinz shut down their ketchup plant here in Ontario, then discovered we liked it better. More tomato taste and less sweetness! And it tastes great on French (Freedom??😉😁) fries too! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskatiemae Posted August 17, 2021 #1599 Share Posted August 17, 2021 You want ketchup with no sweetener, organic, without any (ahem) history i.e. troublesome political inclinations? Go Paleo! Keto! Whole30! Gluten-free! PrimalKitchen is what's in my fridge. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted August 17, 2021 #1600 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Bistro on Endeavor. How many of you can eat just one? Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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