Merhaba,
Here are more photos from our very full, fun Saturday.
Ru
A busy afternoon: Lunch, donuts, ceramics and scarves
Donuts !!!!
Saturdays Randal and I usually walk to town for lunch at Aciktim. Today Rick and Mary and Sue and Ed joined us. After lunch we hunted for glass pie pans and on the way home introduced Sue to the wonderful ceramic shop and the shop with a thousand scarves.
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The traveling Roanoke County Public Library Yankee Swap Fruitcake visits Aciktim for lunch. Happy Holidays to all my pals back in the library: one day the fruitcake will return! |
In our wanderings today we stopped at Tansaṣ looking for glass pie pans for Randal. He is determined to perfect his pie crusts and had read that glass pie dishes were the best. We first tried the
restaurant supply store, but they only had size Giant which was too big. We decided to look in Tansaṣ, one of the local grocery stores we’d pass on our way home. Viola! They had the perfect glass pie pans…and luckily I had my dictionary so we could say the word oven and mime putting the dish into an oven to make sure they were truly ovenproof. ( Fırın is the word for oven in Turkish if you ever need to know; no dot over the two I letters.) In the Tansaṣ parking lot there was a cart set up with a deep fryer and a long line of people waiting to get the free Turkish donuts. As Randal and I were taking forever to get our pie dishes and get through the check-out line our pals were in the line for free donuts. They shared.
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Donut Man |
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Sue, Ed and Mary wait in line for donuts |
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I loved his expression and his mom’s skirt and sweater color combination that I noticed when I had time to look while working with the photos. He did look a bit less skeptical when he finally got his donuts. |
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He wasn’t posing; I snuck in with my zoom: I call this one “boy with donuts!” |
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Sue, Mary and Ed shared with Rick, Randal and me. They tasted like the batter that fried fish or shrimp come in and then deep fried (minus the fish or shrimp)….not at all sweet or cake like…more like fried batter. I’m glad I tried one but won’t need any more. I’ll stick to the skinny bagel like simits. |
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Alex and Diana looking for the perfect gift in Elhamra Çini ceramic shop which specializes in beautiful hand painted ceramics decorated with Ottoman images, designs and colors. Our friend Betty from Sundance and I shopped here last summer and now lots of Netsel cruisers have discovered what a special place it is. |
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With everything else to look at I almost missed the cat. |
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Next came the shop with the thousand scarves. I have one I bought a week ago. I pointed out the shop to Sue as we passed it and she asked if we could just stop and look…..and Sue left with a lovely bright blue one.
Sue learning how to tie a scarf: so many colors and choices: she went with the lovely blue though the light purple one was lovely too. |
