Hello from Kentucky

[joec]

My name is Joe and have been a member on both knife forums and Foodie forum for a couple of years now. I'm a home cook and a bit of a knife collector and a Chinese cleaver user mostly. I came over and signed up this morning after seeing a post at knife forums by Chico (The Tourist). Hope to learn much here as I have in the other forums. :wave:

[sattie]

Hey Joe, welcome to NCT... glad you joined us!!! I'm a home cook as well... don't do chef stuff, but love to cook.

[jim_slagle]

Welcome to the Forum Joe!

Glad you found us (THANKS Chico!) :tiphat:

[joec]

I am also older than some rocks with 4 grown kids, 17 grand kids and a great grand son. My weekends are usually busy feeding those that actually live here so I often feel like a short order cook. I am part owner in a self storage facility in Lexington where my wife of 43 years live and manage as a team. I have one 15 year old grand daughter that lives with my wife and I.

My grand mother (worlds best cook) taught me to cook as a kid, mostly Hungarian and Italian foods but a bit of everything really. I've branched out over years due to traveling to 94 countries in 3 years and eating a lot of different foods in my travels.

[Doc]

Hey Joe! Great to meet you. Welcome to Net Cooking Talk! I'm glad you came over and signed up. I'm just north of you in South Eastern Ohio. Right on the Ohio River in Meigs county.
I hope you guys will share pics of your knives. Sounds cool.
Enjoy and post often. :thumb:

[joec]

I've down size my knife collection a bit lately and added a few so I will take some more pictures and post my current collection perhaps by the weekend. I will make up an album or would it be better to post them here?

Thanks all and some of the recipes posted here looked great. I have a few that I like also.

[Deadly Sushi]

Howdy!!! Good to meet ya! :wave: I think if you posteed the photos in some thread it would be great! Either though is fine. Just easier to see the photos while putting them in a thread. :biggrin:

[joec]

No problem then will do it in a tread. Glad to be here and thanks all for the warm welcome. :)

[Nica]

Hi Joe.....Glad you joined up.http://www.netcookingtalk.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'm in south cen KS, the rolling red hills of Barber county. I'm a grandpa too, but no great grand kids. My oldest grandchild will be 13 in Nov.

I'm new at growing gardens and preserving food, but having a ball learning. http://www.netcookingtalk.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif

Most of us aren't shy when it comes to posting pictures. I'd like to see some of your knives and look forward to your postings.

Again, glad your here! :thumb:

[joec]

We do a bit of gardening ourselves though we don't have a lot of room for it. We live in a small 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment at the storage facility. We do have a nice garden window so we can grow some herbs and peppers year around. I had a bumper crop of sweet basil this year and will let 2 plants go to seed for next year. I will take the rest up and dry it with a dehydrator then grind it up for the winter months. We also got some flat leaf parsley, egg plant, cucumbers, but no luck with the tomatoes this year at all. Good looking plants but now fruit so far that can be picked. We have had snow here by Halloween the last 3 years and I doubt the few tomatoes will be rip enough to pick by then. We also grow thyme, tarragon, sage, and chives but those grow in the garden window year around.

I have a custom made cleaver out for some modifications at the moment and I've sold off a lot of what I had originally. As soon as the cleaver comes back I will post some current pictures of what I have now. Including the cleaver and 4 custom cutting boards made by the Boardsmith.

[joec]

I posted a few pictures over in the kitchen tools section under Doc's thread of favoite knives and brands.