Radish Roll (Moo-Ssam) - Korean dish

Place thinly-sliced vegetables (colorful bell peppers, radishes, cucumbers), egg sheets, imitation crab meat and kaiware (radish sprouts) on a radish thinner sheet. Roll up as like in making sushi. You can add any type of meat to this recipe.

Yang Jang Pi - Korean Chinese style dish

Seafood, meat and thinly-sliced vegetables in mustard sauce

Thornless Roses

Thornless Rose Bushes

Chloris rose, Crownprincess Victoria rose, Leander rose, Mme Plantier Rose, Reine des Violettes rose, Cornealia rose

Climbing Roses That Are Thornless

Yellow Lady banks rose, Goldfinch rose, Lykkefund rose, Tausendschon rose, Veilchenblau rose, Zepherine Drouhin rose

If you have a hard time with thorny stems, try thornless roses. Growing roses without thorns makes the trimming roses so much easier.

It should be noted that although the stems are thornless, there are still prickles under some of the leaves!

What is Jatobá?

Jatobá or Guapinol (Hymenaea courbaril), is a tree common to the Caribbean, Central, and South America. It is a hardwood that is used for furniture, flooring and decorative purposes.

Although Jatoba is sometimes referred to as Brazilian or South American Cherry, it is not a cherry tree and it is in no way, botanically or otherwise related to Black Cherry (Prunus serotina), a very common American hardwood. Jatoba is also known as South American Locust, stinking toe (because of the smell of its seed pods), Brazilian copal and various other names.

Jatoba produces an orange, resinous, sticky gum that converts to amber through a chemical process that requires millions of years. Amber of million-year-old Hymenaea trees have provided scientists with many clues to its prehistoric presence on earth as well as to the insects and other plants encased in it. (As shown in the Jurassic Park movies)

Jatoba is a very hard wood measuring 5.6 on the Brinell scale or 2350 lbf on the Janka scale, approximate measurements of hardness. For comparison, Douglas Fir measures 660 lbf, White Oak 1360 lbf, and Brazilian Walnut 3800 lbf on the Janka scale.

Jatoba features a tan/salmon color with black accent stripes that over time turns to a deep rich red color.

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Jatobá(Brazilian Cherry) Hardwood Flooring

Color Change

Jatobá is a photosensitive wood, Jatobá original color darkens to a deep red with exposure to light. Color stabilizes approximately three months after installation.

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Exotic Hardwood Floors like Jatobá (Brazilian Cherry) will be my future hardwood floors.

Tips

When you purchase Brazillian Cherry hardwood floors make sure it is a Jatobá specie not an imitation. Beware, if the price is too good to be true most likely it is an imitation.

What's the diffrence between engineered and solid wood?

Solid

Solid wood is milled from a single 3/4" thick piece of hardwood. Because of its thickness, a solid hardwood floor can be sanded and refinished over several generations of use. Solid wood flooring expands and contracts with changes in your home's relative humidity. Normally, installers compensate for this movement by leaving an expansion gap between the floor and the wall. Base molding or quarter round is traditionally used to hide the extra space.

Engineered

Engineered wood is produced with three to five layers of hardwood. Each layer is stacked in a cross-grain configuration and bonded together under heat and pressure. As a result, engineered wood flooring is less likely to be affected by changes in humidity and can be installed at all levels of the home. Shaw Hardwood flooring offers two different engineered constructions:

• Shaw Engineered with Plywood Core
• Shaw Epic Engineered with EnviroCore? - High Density Fiberboard Core. EnviroCore? is Shaw's environmentally-friendly coreboard made of recycled wood fiber, meaning fewer trees are used with less waste.

Before deciding on Solid or Engineered hardwood flooring, consider these factors:

Location, Location, Location

The location of your hardwood flooring basically falls into three categories:

• On Grade - at ground level


• Above Grade - any second level or higher


• Below Grade - any floor below ground level, including basements or sunken living rooms.

Traditional solid hardwood flooring is not well suited for high moisture areas such as bathrooms or below-grade installations. The construction of an engineered hardwood gives it enhanced structural stability and moisture resistance that allows it to be installed at any grade level.

What type of subfloor do you have?

If you plan to install over concrete, you must use an engineered product to ensure structural integrity. Solid wood flooring or Engineered flooring may be used over plywood, wood, or OSB subfloors.

Will there be moisture in the room?

If so, you'll want to select an Engineered hardwood. The moisture resistance of an engineered hardwood makes it suitable for rooms where moisture is a possibility, such as bathrooms.

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Bing Cherry Wedding Cake

What a beautiful wedding cake! I think red cherries are better than red roses. At least you can eat sweet cherries. :)

Bing Cherries

In the United States, most sweet cherries are grown in Washington, California, Oregon, and Northern Michigan. Important sweet cherry cultivars include "Bing", "Brooks", "Tulare", "King" and "Rainier". What I love the most is "Bing". Bing cherries are used almost exclusively for fresh market. Bings are large, dark and firm cherries that ship well, but will crack open if exposed to rain near harvest. A wet climate is required for the harvest of the bing cherry. Bing cherries are high in anit-oxidants.

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