{"id":2813,"date":"2010-07-31T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/kabosha-squash\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T02:13:32","slug":"kabosha-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/kabosha-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\/07\/kabosha.jpg' title='kabocha.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kabosha.jpg' alt='kabocha.jpg' width='320' class='left' \/><\/a>Today, we had a rather nice afternoon when the low clouds and fog finally burned off. We had been planning to cook on the outdoor grill, so the weather cooperated with us today. <\/p>\n<p>We grilled pork chops, steamed broccoli and baked a squash. Other than the BBQ beans (which were heated in the microwave), the whole meal was cooked outdoors. <\/p>\n<p>Today is the first time we cooked our home-grown Kabocha squash (Japanese pumpkin). We were unsure what we would get since there is a Kabuki dance involved after picking to keep the squash warm for two weeks and then store it in a cool dry place for several more weeks. We might have been a little too early, but when we ate it it was really good! We spread butter and cinnamon on it and baked in aluminum foil over the closed grill set to 400&deg; for 45 minutes. They stayed on the grill&#8217;s heating rack while we grilled the chops and steamed the broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>We have a half dozen of these left this season, so other than keeping one or two for ourselves, we&#8217;re going to give them to family.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we had a rather nice afternoon when the low clouds and fog finally burned off. We had been planning to cook on the outdoor grill,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","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\/2813","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}