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Decided to let the 15 go solo tonight in the kitchen. Does it work as well as my dedicated kitchen knives? No. Still, it's a very capable knife paired with a cutting board.
On the menu tonight, by special request from my girls, pumpkin soup; served in the shell. This was a completely veg meal (except for the bacon that I added to mine after the fact) since my eldest is allergic to milk, as well as other stuff.
Got four small pie pumpkins and a few ears of corn at the farmer's market yesterday.
First up, carve out the tops and get them into the oven with some margarine and brown sugar in them:
Cut up some onions and garlic; this is where I had to adjust my style, but the 15 is still fairly easy to maneuver:
My little one helping out with the seeds:
Just about ready to season and into the oven they go:
I like to cook with beer. Sometimes I even put some in the food:
The corn was SO sweet. Easy to see where "high fructose corn syrup" comes from.
Pumpkins are done, scooped out the insides and into the pot to get stick blended with the secret ingredients. Actually not secret, but I don't always remember as I pretty much cook by the seat of my pants. What I remember: onions and garlic fried in some EVOO, vegetable broth, cardamom, allspice, salt, nutmeg, a little garam masala, ginger powder, the last of the tofutti sour cream, maple syrup and the aforementioned pumpkin with brown sugar and margarine.
The end result with the roasted pumpkin seeds:
Turns out the 15 will do pretty much whatever you want in the kitchen. I don't think it added any time to prep, but it isn't as user friendly for getting a good mince with the garlic or a consistent dice with the onions. But I certainly would take it over some cheap POS kitchen knife any day of the week. And it did a great job capping the pumpkins, probably better than any of my Wusthofs. Overall it was fun, though it was a lot of work to serve it in the shell - which was not a function of knife choice. I told the girls next time I will just peel those suckers and cook them like regular squash. Although even as late as I got dinner on the table, they were totally jazzed to be eating their meal out of a pumpkin. Hopefully there'll be no fights over the leftovers. Which I now have to put away, as well as do the dishes. Enjoy.
On the menu tonight, by special request from my girls, pumpkin soup; served in the shell. This was a completely veg meal (except for the bacon that I added to mine after the fact) since my eldest is allergic to milk, as well as other stuff.
Got four small pie pumpkins and a few ears of corn at the farmer's market yesterday.
First up, carve out the tops and get them into the oven with some margarine and brown sugar in them:
Cut up some onions and garlic; this is where I had to adjust my style, but the 15 is still fairly easy to maneuver:
My little one helping out with the seeds:
Just about ready to season and into the oven they go:
I like to cook with beer. Sometimes I even put some in the food:
The corn was SO sweet. Easy to see where "high fructose corn syrup" comes from.
Pumpkins are done, scooped out the insides and into the pot to get stick blended with the secret ingredients. Actually not secret, but I don't always remember as I pretty much cook by the seat of my pants. What I remember: onions and garlic fried in some EVOO, vegetable broth, cardamom, allspice, salt, nutmeg, a little garam masala, ginger powder, the last of the tofutti sour cream, maple syrup and the aforementioned pumpkin with brown sugar and margarine.
The end result with the roasted pumpkin seeds:
Turns out the 15 will do pretty much whatever you want in the kitchen. I don't think it added any time to prep, but it isn't as user friendly for getting a good mince with the garlic or a consistent dice with the onions. But I certainly would take it over some cheap POS kitchen knife any day of the week. And it did a great job capping the pumpkins, probably better than any of my Wusthofs. Overall it was fun, though it was a lot of work to serve it in the shell - which was not a function of knife choice. I told the girls next time I will just peel those suckers and cook them like regular squash. Although even as late as I got dinner on the table, they were totally jazzed to be eating their meal out of a pumpkin. Hopefully there'll be no fights over the leftovers. Which I now have to put away, as well as do the dishes. Enjoy.
