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amazon_syren) wrote2005-10-29 02:20 pm
amazon_syren) wrote2005-10-29 02:20 pm
Chop Chop... :-)
I have an axe. :-D
I got it the other day.
It is fairly light weight, and has a good stainless-steel head on it.
I'm using it to cut squash. :-D
Wood, eventually, will be added to the list of things to chop. :-)
It's hanging in my kitchen.
I like it.
I like having an axe in my kitchen.
I like the opportunity to practice my aim. :-)
Have discovered that my aim is pretty horrible: I cut open a "Sweet Meat" squash -- heirloom variety, currently available at Loblaws -- and it took quite a few wacks, and no small amount of flying squash.
I've decided that covering said squash in tinfoil before cooking is a good idea, as that will allow for some steam to work its magic at the same time as the heat does.
But. I now have Sweet Meat seeds for planting next year. :-)
I will also have "blue kuri" (similar to red kuri/gold nugget) hubbard squash.
You know those "garden tours" that people do for charity. E.G.: Pay $20 and tour half a dozen really awesome and beautiful gardens in the city?
I would kind of like to have a tourable garden that consisted almost entirely of food plants. So: many varieties of squash and beans, plus beds of partridge- and blue- berries (and juniper berries), bramble berries of all sorts and hardy roses, currants, service/saskatoon/honey berry trees, Cortland apples (and possibly one other variety), and all sorts of edible wild ("wild") greens and flowers and stuff. :-)
SQUASH:
Acorn (Table Queen?), Amber Cup, Baby Bear Small Pumpkin, Buttercup (Sweet Mama or Gold Nugget), Butternut, Banana (Pink), Blue Hubbard, Blue Kuri Hubbard, Canada Crookneck, Carnival/Sweet Dumpling, Delicata, Green Striped Cushaw Pumpkin, Green Wharted Hubbard, Golden Delicious, Golden Hubbard, Honey Delight, Jack-Be-Little Miniature Pumpkins (edible), Pepper, Red Kuri Hubbard, Sweetie Pie Miniature Pumpkin, Small-Sugar Pie Pumpkin, Sweet Meat.
BEANS:
Pole: Blue Hyacinth, Scarlet Runner, Pink Lady Runner, Goldmarie Romano, Christmas Pole Lima, Florida Speckled Butter Lima, King of the Garden Lima, Cherokee Trail of Tears (purple pole), Kentucky Wonder, Black Creaseback ("Ideal Market"), Blue Lake, Painted Lady, Wonder-Lake, Rattlesnake, True Red Cranberry, Wren's Egg.
Bush: Aquadulce Fava, Windsor Fava, Pencil Pod Black Wax, Black Valentine, Royal Burgundy, Jackson Wonder, Black Turtle, Bountiful.
Lots of good fun, I say. :-)
I got it the other day.
It is fairly light weight, and has a good stainless-steel head on it.
I'm using it to cut squash. :-D
Wood, eventually, will be added to the list of things to chop. :-)
It's hanging in my kitchen.
I like it.
I like having an axe in my kitchen.
I like the opportunity to practice my aim. :-)
Have discovered that my aim is pretty horrible: I cut open a "Sweet Meat" squash -- heirloom variety, currently available at Loblaws -- and it took quite a few wacks, and no small amount of flying squash.
I've decided that covering said squash in tinfoil before cooking is a good idea, as that will allow for some steam to work its magic at the same time as the heat does.
But. I now have Sweet Meat seeds for planting next year. :-)
I will also have "blue kuri" (similar to red kuri/gold nugget) hubbard squash.
You know those "garden tours" that people do for charity. E.G.: Pay $20 and tour half a dozen really awesome and beautiful gardens in the city?
I would kind of like to have a tourable garden that consisted almost entirely of food plants. So: many varieties of squash and beans, plus beds of partridge- and blue- berries (and juniper berries), bramble berries of all sorts and hardy roses, currants, service/saskatoon/honey berry trees, Cortland apples (and possibly one other variety), and all sorts of edible wild ("wild") greens and flowers and stuff. :-)
SQUASH:
Acorn (Table Queen?), Amber Cup, Baby Bear Small Pumpkin, Buttercup (Sweet Mama or Gold Nugget), Butternut, Banana (Pink), Blue Hubbard, Blue Kuri Hubbard, Canada Crookneck, Carnival/Sweet Dumpling, Delicata, Green Striped Cushaw Pumpkin, Green Wharted Hubbard, Golden Delicious, Golden Hubbard, Honey Delight, Jack-Be-Little Miniature Pumpkins (edible), Pepper, Red Kuri Hubbard, Sweetie Pie Miniature Pumpkin, Small-Sugar Pie Pumpkin, Sweet Meat.
BEANS:
Pole: Blue Hyacinth, Scarlet Runner, Pink Lady Runner, Goldmarie Romano, Christmas Pole Lima, Florida Speckled Butter Lima, King of the Garden Lima, Cherokee Trail of Tears (purple pole), Kentucky Wonder, Black Creaseback ("Ideal Market"), Blue Lake, Painted Lady, Wonder-Lake, Rattlesnake, True Red Cranberry, Wren's Egg.
Bush: Aquadulce Fava, Windsor Fava, Pencil Pod Black Wax, Black Valentine, Royal Burgundy, Jackson Wonder, Black Turtle, Bountiful.
Lots of good fun, I say. :-)