Mezallunas are great for chopping in a wooden bowl.
Cool, hadn't seen those before. Looks like I should get one for pastry prep. Once in a while when I get home from work I'm in the mood for a sweet treat, so I whip up some vanilla shortbread cookie dough for an immediate snack. If I have milk in the fridge I sometimes remember mom times past, making the butter/brown sugar delicacies we made with excess pie dough in remembrance.
Tinkerers Kitchen Gadget:
I just did the release/catch phase of what my girlfriend describes as my (abhorrent) Science Experiments.** This is a zero cost, (now humane) fruit fly eliminator:
The last time summer waxed Planet of the Fruit Flies, I decided to make use of my workmate's banana remnant discards. Age to browned perfection and pop into freezer bait bucket for instant availability.
Recycle soda bottle by re-use in Cricket Trap (fish bait collector) format and invite the gang in for a snack. 8-O
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It's Planet of the Fruit Flies in NC again a few years later and great fun considering. Back then I started depositing coffee grounds in a zip-lock flour tortilla bag. That drove the GRLF to distraction last year so I moved the bag-o-grounds into a coffee can. That doubles the effectiveness of the trap as they seem to be able to detect the canned grounds, so now the FFeliminator sits atop that to remind me to cut the critters loose outside when I make coffee.
** Not telling the GRLF that I decided to go full-on science experiment. Left my uninvited guests in the Eliminator to do their thing through a full life cycle for entertainment. Very cool, if you have kids you gotta give it a go, watching the babies worm around the container is interesting, but releasing the burgeoning next-gen population is great fun. Considering a two generation run, but that seems a bit outside the capabilities of even a 3 Liter containment.
In its first incarnation, I was so PO'd at the things in the Eliminator that at times I enjoyed watching/waiting for the little R*T B******S to climb to the apex and smoosh 'em, but that got old after a while and cleanup lost its appeal, so I've gone PETI.*****
*****As a farmboy my notions of the ethical treatment of animals predates the more fringe silliness of Park Avenue PETA type owners of working dogs inhumanely caged in NYC apartments. That dog breeds are "stylish" is the worst reason ever for choosing a pet. Some folks have no clue whatsoever. A single Australian Shepherd, Border Collie or the like on the island of Manhattan is one too many.
"Eating Fresh" included chickens along with my pre-schooler's quarter acre truck garden's goodies.
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Should have waited until tomorrow for photo session, the one little guy caught in the fifteen minutes it took me to think of this was camera shy. Update pic may be posted, but if some of you tinkerers wants to give it a go, lets see who can snag a photogenic gang for a followup posting first?
