{"id":11892,"date":"2019-09-30T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2019-10-05T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:25:33","slug":"daily_1734_-_chopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/daily_1734_-_chopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1734 &#8211; chopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1734_chopping.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Monday, which means it&#8217;s me and Adrian cooking dinner together, and him setting the direction.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that Adrian likes in his food, and that I&#8217;m gradually also coming to like, is not peeling the root vegetables. I think part of it might be convenience, but he says he prefers the taste of potatoes cooked in their skins, and of unpeeled carrots. Even when he isn&#8217;t the one doing the peeling, he asks me if I could not peel the potatoes. He also says that broccoli stems taste better than the florets.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t feel much of a difference in flavour, to be honest, but it definitely saves time, so I rarely peel carrots or potatoes nowadays. Roast potatoes are great with skins on. I even tried making <i>r\u00e5rakor<\/i> &#8211; they&#8217;re sort of like flat, thin hash browns or r\u00f6sti &#8211; without peeling the potatoes before grating them and it worked surprisingly well.<\/p>\n<p>Something that felt so natural and obvious for so many years, even decades &#8211; of course one peels one&#8217;s potatoes! &#8211; was just an arbitrary habit, that I did just because I was taught to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, which means it&#8217;s me and Adrian cooking dinner together, and him setting the direction. One thing that Adrian likes in his food, and that I&#8217;m gradually also coming to like, is not peeling the root vegetables. I think part of it might be convenience, but he says he prefers the taste of potatoes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}