{"id":1134,"date":"2007-04-14T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2007\/knife-shopping\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T01:12:51","slug":"knife-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2007\/knife-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few weeks have been pretty crazy: work deadlines piled one on top of another, Papa away for “Opening Day baseball”:http:\/\/firstpitch.org\/ and then “a theology conference”:http:\/\/www.wheaton.edu\/Theology\/theo_conf\/, and Mama valiantly battling a mild cold. So, Lucy and I did the only reasonable thing we could do today: we bought a chef’s knife. <\/p>\n

At the Chopping Block<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, I took a knife skills class at a local “cooking shop”:http:\/\/thechoppingblock.net\/ (thanks to a birthday gift from my brother) and had the most fun I’ve had by myself in months. I left Lucy in the charge of her capable Papa and thoroughly enjoyed learning the proper way to hold a knife, chop an onion, and mince herbs. It cost something to go in terms of time and frozen milk, but I’m really grateful I got the chance.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve only had a chance to practice my new knife skills a few times. But what I did notice during those few times was that, despite our perfectly serviceable knife collection, we didn’t have a true chef’s knife. (And some of our knives, especially the cheapies from Ikea, are pretty dull — not awful, but I could tell the difference.)<\/p>\n

So, Lucy and I decided to take advantage of the 20% off sale at the Chopping Block (ends April 15!) and invest in a good, sharp knife. “Friedr. Dick”:http:\/\/fdick.com\/, 10″ long, nice and heavy, with a full tang. It wasn’t cheap, and I made sure to ask about the return policy in case I had regrets. But I feel really glad to have it. In this busy season of our lives, my new knife feels like a faithful reminder that there will soon be time again to cook with leisure, go for family walks, and maybe even write on our blog! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past few weeks have been pretty crazy: work deadlines piled one on top of another, Papa away for “Opening Day baseball”:http:\/\/firstpitch.org\/ and then “a theology conference”:http:\/\/www.wheaton.edu\/Theology\/theo_conf\/, and Mama valiantly battling a mild cold. So, Lucy and I did the only reasonable thing we could do today: we bought a chef’s knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}