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Thanks! I used pork belly, with fat and skin removed. dcarch

Roasts are red, Violets are blue, Authentic recipe, Without Red Dye #2. Made Chinese Char Siu. Used beet juice for the red color. dcarch

Happy Memorial Day! Happy indeed! Succeeded in Zone 6 to have ripe tomatoes before Memorial Day! Last year's goal was to have tomatoes before July 4th. With my DIY high power LED lights, Memorial Day is the objective for this year. Next year Mother's Day? :-) dcarch

Exactly What I was trying to say. Except for sushi preparation, which requires the right kind of knife used the right way for a specific kind of meat. dcarch

Only if you are a sushi chef. dcarch

Thank you! The green stuff is wasabi squeezed from a tube. The white wafers are ultra thin, thinner than paper slices of Jicama. Also finely julienned jicama is in the crab rolls. I like that better than cucumber. dcarch

I hope you all had an enjoyable Mother's Day. I don't believe in fighting the crowd going to a restaurant for MD. So I made sushi. Tuna rolls and crab meat rolls. dcarch

Goji plant is super easy to grow. Go to a Chinese store, buy some goji greens on branches. Eat the greens, and stick the branches in soil. The branches root quickly and you will have goji greens year round from now on, every year. I think they will grow in climate zones much colder than zone 6. Make sure you re-do your retirement planning. Because you will live to at least 145 years old. dcarch

This is about cooking, but also about gardening, and a little about medicinal food. Its always a challenge to plan your garden for early harvest, if you are in a cold zone. I am happy that I have been able to enjoy a steady supply of fresh goodies from my garden (zone 6). First, I got asparagus, then hosta shoots, now I am enjoying goji plant greens. Goji comes early in cold weather. It is a perennial that gives you a supply of delicious early greens and goji berries every year. Goji greens and berries are a common vegetable in Asian countries. They are believed to have very beneficial medicinal effects. It may not be acceptable for me to discuss anything medicinal on this forum. But you can Google if you are interested in this "super food". dcarch SV crispy salmon on goji greens.

Yes, hosta is a vegetable in many Asian countries, like in Japan. where it is known as giboshi. From my garden. two months before my other vegetables. Thank you very much! dcarch

Love my asparagus patch, and my hosta plants. They come up way before your garden gives you any vegetables. Not only that they come early, they are delicious gourmet treats. dcarch Hosta, asparagus, with lemon shrimps. Everything on the plant are from my garden, except the shrimps.

I am talking about working outdoors in the garden and my shop is a detached big leaky two car garage, not insulated. dcarch

I sous vided my fingers. Yes, I sous vided my fingers. Check my post in Gardening Forum. dcarch

It never occurred to me that I should share this tip. I sous vide my fingers. That's right, sous vide my fingers. It's cold to work in my shop and in the garden in the late fall to spring. For a lot of work, gloves can be a problem. So I set my sous vide temperature to about 98F in a pot of water. When my fingers get numb and cold, I just immerse my hands into the hot water for a few seconds, towel them dry, and I am good to go for a while. Numb fingers can be a danger working with tools. dcarch

It is possible that, if there is a hood above the stove, it vents to outside. It looks like there is a vent above the sink area. I am assuming the ceiling floor joists run from the stove wall to the window wall. That makes it easy to run a duct from the hook to outside. dcarch

A very nice kitchen. You will be happy in it. I would add the following: 1. ceiling lights above the sink. 2. Center island on casters. 3. A floor electric outlet where the center island is. 4. May be the smoke detector should be a little further away from stove. (depends on how often you burn your food LOL!) dcarch

Happy Easter and Passover! Instead of ham (too salty) I made SV rib steak . Instead of matzo balls, I made matzo star of David. With asparagus and radish from my garden. On grilled pineapple slices. dcarch

There should be a cell phone electronic jammer inside public toilets. dcarch.

What I have done. I use a large sheet of clear greenhouse plastic to cover the asparagus plot early in the spring. The sun warms up the soil, and I can get two to three weeks earlier asparagus. dcarch

Top lid for tiffin box? dcarch

I still think expensive rent, health department inspections in city environment require highly packed seating and hard reflective surfaces for cleaning. That's why you don't frequently find noisy restaurants in suburban areas. dcarch

My method is very simple. Cheap soft drink plastic cups. I use a soldering iron to burn a few hole on the bottom and fill the cups with fine potting soil. Seems to drain very well. dcarch

Spring Into Action Finally, spring is here. Picked some asparagus from the garden. dcarch Giant humongous Corona beans, pork chops and asparagus from the garden

Isn't it also true that the amount of current that can go thru a device will also be dependent on the R value, as well as voltage? You can take a 12v LED (or any light bulb for that matter) and hook it up to a 1000 amp 12v battery without burning out the LED. Yes, you can in fact vary the brightness of any bulb type by varying the currant at constant voltage using a PWM circuit design. That's one of the reasons why many LEDs flicker. dcarch

All LEDs require a minimum voltage to fire. Therefore no LEDs can be dimmed like incandescent bulbs. That said, COB LEDs can be dimmed to some degree. down to 30%? Not sure. dcarch