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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 5h

compared to the other red kiwi, this one is more of just a red ring around the centre. it's also a more vibrant yellow than the golden kiwi

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 5h

i had to freeze some of these for 5-6 months to get all these together

the top two are two "red" kiwi varieties, and the bottom two are golden and green kiwis.

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 7h

the freezer is fine but now i have 20 jars of assorted fruit jellies and juices

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 1d

it involves making a dough with wheat flour, then washing out the starch from the gluten and making a thin batter with it where you pour a layer, steam it, and cut it up. then you take the gluten and steam that too. and it all gets served cold and tossed with chili oil and vinegar

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 1d

one of the dishes i've always wanted to make from scratch, is a chinese wheat starch noodle with steamed gluten. it's also a dish i've always wondered why it was invented cuz it's a lot of effort, but a lot of human culinary history has people trying to make the same thing more interesting

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 1d

got some rose hips and made a drink with it!

these ones are quite sour and have a herbal/medicinal taste to them. not really my thing. the seeds also have tiny hairs that will irritate your insides. i believe these are from the dog rose?

i've had better rose hips from the chestnut rose honestly

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 8d

what does this mean? i literally have no clue. i jsut opened up bsky and my brain was like "Okay, here's a post you can make on bsky.app. yeah. send that shit."

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 8d

i don find celery ;(

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 11d

i had another idea of making a rhombic dodecahedron but with the faces in different woods so it looked like 3d cubes which i thought would be pretty trippy, but cutting all the pieces to the proper angles and fitting them together in 3d... yeah, maybe not now

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 11d

my design ideas are getting so elaborate i need to chill out and not plan out a box with hidden hinges made of wood and an intarsia design on the front. it's probably been almost a decade since i've worked with wood so i gotta brush up on basics first

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 12d

oh yeah so i don't usually post cooked food on here but i might as well show that i actually do cook and eat the stuff i do, like this is a stir fry with pork ribs and fried tofu. should have added more veggies but all i had at the moment was some daikon i was fermenting and gai-lan sooo i said no

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 13d

mixed-use zoning is pretty cool but sometimes i wonder if people ever get confused and accidentally go into the bubble tea shop downstairs instead of going home

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 13d

i fermented some winter bamboo shoots for a month! i'm like, 80% sure most of the cyanide should be gone now so i'll blanch them before stir frying

these also don't smell that bad, i've bought some that are absolutely pungent and that stink up my place for a few days but these are quite mild

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 13d

i might try to get my hands on a yuzuquat if i don't end up moving cuz i think that'd be more useful for me, it's hard to get anything fresh for yuzu here but i can pick up fresh calamondins at several grocery stores so

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 13d

i didn't put this calamondin tree outside this year cuz i took a bunch of trips and acclimatizing it each time i bring it back inside would have been a pain but it does have some fruit that's almost turned orange. it's about an inch in diameter and i really only use these guys for drinks

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 15d

been rearranging blocks of wood on my bed for the past quarter hour (nobody says that whoops) trying to figure out what the best-looking arrangement of them is

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 16d

but the range in colours is cool, sad that most of these will fade though. also the one on the right, it actually usually looks chocolate brown and is darker than the one right next to it but the light in this pic hit it in a way that made it look lighter

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 16d

i like seeing how different all these woods are, of course there's stuff like colour but also some can be 10 times as dense as other woods so picking them up surprises you with how heavy they are, and then there's all the different ways the pores are arranged and how big they are and all that

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 16d

i love wood

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 17d

in a way, cooking in my own kitchen is no different from cooking in someone else's kitchen cuz i have no clue what's lying around in either

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 17d

maybe some thyme and savoury i just have in my freezer. guess i have some worcestershire sauce just lying around, i'll use that too. and some soy sauce. and oh i have some leftover blackcurrant and haskap juices. and then just throw in some gelatin cuz why not and mount it with butter.

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 17d

the way i make pan sauces really is just throwing random bullshit together. it's like, i'll throw in some shallots and garlic. ah, what the hell, why not make a dark roux. maybe some balsamic. add some stock, of course. oh i've got some dried mushrooms, might as well. a bit of mustard too.

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 18d

replace "helicopter" with "domain"

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 23d

(left to right, top to bottom:) northern highbush blueberry, common bilberry, wild lowbush blueberry, mountain huckleberry, american cranberry, small cranberry, lingonberry. all of these are in the genus vaccinium

out of these, my favourites are probably the mountain huckleberry and the lingonberry

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2himo @shimosleet.bsky.social · 23d

i taped my freezer shut to keep everything from falling out but eventually even several 3-foot long strips of duct tape failed and the door burst open while i was sleeping so now i gotta use up 10 lbs of berries. not that i'm complaining. when life gives you lemons,

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