plus, if you really wanted like, custom art of something in wood, it makes more sense to just take a wood like maple and dye it different colours for a piece instead of dealing with some of those exotic woods out there. cheaper, easier to work with, colourfast, doesn't destroy your lungs, etc.

and all this for something where the colours will fade over time, sometimes quite dramatically. it'd have to be for someone who appreciates the individual wood species going into it, and the fact that it will only look like that for a little bit before it all becomes various shades of brown

compared to the other red kiwi, this one is more of just a red ring around the centre. it's also a more vibrant yellow than the golden kiwi

the freezer is fine but now i have 20 jars of assorted fruit jellies and juices

it involves making a dough with wheat flour, then washing out the starch from the gluten and making a thin batter with it where you pour a layer, steam it, and cut it up. then you take the gluten and steam that too. and it all gets served cold and tossed with chili oil and vinegar

what does this mean? i literally have no clue. i jsut opened up bsky and my brain was like "Okay, here's a post you can make on bsky.app. yeah. send that shit."

i had another idea of making a rhombic dodecahedron but with the faces in different woods so it looked like 3d cubes which i thought would be pretty trippy, but cutting all the pieces to the proper angles and fitting them together in 3d... yeah, maybe not now

oh yeah so i don't usually post cooked food on here but i might as well show that i actually do cook and eat the stuff i do, like this is a stir fry with pork ribs and fried tofu. should have added more veggies but all i had at the moment was some daikon i was fermenting and gai-lan sooo i said no

i might try to get my hands on a yuzuquat if i don't end up moving cuz i think that'd be more useful for me, it's hard to get anything fresh for yuzu here but i can pick up fresh calamondins at several grocery stores so

but the range in colours is cool, sad that most of these will fade though. also the one on the right, it actually usually looks chocolate brown and is darker than the one right next to it but the light in this pic hit it in a way that made it look lighter

i like seeing how different all these woods are, of course there's stuff like colour but also some can be 10 times as dense as other woods so picking them up surprises you with how heavy they are, and then there's all the different ways the pores are arranged and how big they are and all that