I know, I know…it seems like Stephanie has all but taken over since we have been on the ship. But actually a lot is happening.

Tonight was African Night for the meal at dinner. That is always a lot of work. We have African Night every 2 weeks usually on the Monday night. This time we had Fried Chicken w/spicy pepper sauce (local pepper), Jolof Rice (which… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Another good blog that brings you several great posts that directly relate to Food Service is WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MICHAL (W.I.T.W.I.M) but not only that she covers a wide spectrum of interesting posts relating to her life and thoughts being here on the ship.

Michal also works on one of the kitchen teams with us in food service and you may remember I used her permission to copy… Continue reading

While reading another blog by a nurse whose post was about kids on the ward, she goes on to explain about a little boy, Alfred, shared his Fufu and Sea Monkey with her…(it *Sea Monkey* was not the focus of the blog, the kids were).  But I (being the food person I am) zeroed in on the Sea Monkey.

*Sea Monkey* according to my Monrovia friends is a large… Continue reading | 3 Comments

The following excerpt posted as a picture was used by permission from Michal http://whereintheworldismichal.blogspot.com/ who has her own blog AND works on one of our cooking teams…she has taken pictures and gave commentary on our ‘inner workings’ in the galley and thought you may be interested to read another view besides mine. Plus she has done all the work which is excellent! (laughing)[If you go to Michal’s… Continue reading | 1 Comment

If you missed the first installment of Cooking Teams you can catch up here.

My role as Chief Cook/Lead Chef (the title really does seem to change on a whim) sounds good on paper.  The reason I say that is because on paper my hours are from 8 to 5 Monday thru Friday (Riiiiiiiight).  I guess it could be in certain circumstances… Continue reading

The team setups for cooking are a bit unusual but they work. I’ll explain. The baker kind of has his own hours that usually start way early in the morning and finishes up around midday…nothing really unusual there. Right now the baker takes Wednesday and Sunday off. Before the baker used to take the weekend off but made sure and had enough backup bread in the… Continue reading | 1 Comment