{"id":2738,"date":"2010-06-24T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/kabocha-squash\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T17:45:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T00:45:40","slug":"kabocha-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/kabocha-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabocha Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kabocha.jpg' title='kabocha.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kabocha.jpg' alt='kabocha.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>We thought that we had planted <strong>Acorn Squash<\/strong> when, in fact, they turned out to be <strong>Kabocha Squash<\/strong> (Japanese Pumpkin). After we saw some in the produce department of the local supermarket, I looked them up on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kabocha\">Wikipedia<\/a>. Today many of the kabocha in the market are of the type called Kuri kabocha, which was created based on Seiyo kabocha (buttercup squash). It&#8217;s popular for its strong yet sweet flavor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I looked them up on line because there are certain procedures that must be followed after harvesting them. First, they need to ripen in warm temperature for a couple of weeks and then they need to be stored in a cool dry place for about a month to increase the carbohydrate content. In this way the just-harvested, dry, bland-tasting kabocha is transformed into smooth, sweet kabocha.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll be trying Kabocha Squash later this summer. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought that we had planted Acorn Squash when, in fact, they turned out to be Kabocha Squash (Japanese Pumpkin). After we saw some in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}