{"id":26980,"date":"2012-09-13T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=26980"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:39:53","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-korinky-squash-chijimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/13\/ill-make-it-myself-korinky-squash-chijimi\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself!: “Korinky Squash Chijimi”"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em>The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>. A writer and web administrator for <\/em>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a>, ze also writes <\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to L.M. at\u00a0jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I mentioned eating all that squash<\/a>, you didn\u2019t think I\u2019d leave you hanging, did you?<\/p>\n

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Korinky (konrink\u00ee<\/em>, \u30b3\u30ea\u30f3\u30ad\u30fc) is a strange little squash. I bought it without recognizing the name, since many orange squashes are more or less interchangeable, and to my horror, I found no information on it in English other than this page<\/a>, but apparently these round or football-shaped brindled beauties can be eaten raw! It\u2019s not bad\u2013reminds me of a cross between a fuyu persimmon (color and texture) and a squash. I had no idea what to do with it, so I turned to facebook and Cookpad before settling on this recipe<\/a>, which I tweaked to suit my palate.<\/p>\n

Click HERE to read more.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[761,392,134,191,412,530,762,451],"class_list":["post-26980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-chijimi","tag-cooking-in-japan","tag-food","tag-japan","tag-japanese-food","tag-korean","tag-korinky-squash","tag-recipes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t