by Judy | Jul 31, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
We have been growing our own shiitake mushrooms at the edge of our woods for about the last ten years. While it’s fun to walk outside and harvest them, you do have to pay attention to the weather or you can miss some good eating. The shiitakes fruit best when temperatures are between the fifties to the seventies. They don’t do much in really hot weather. But that doesn’t mean they can’t sneak up on you. If you get a day or two of rain...
by Judy | Jun 26, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Further to Noel’s post on chicken of the woods mushrooms we had chicken (of the woods) fajitas last night for dinner. It was a home cooked fast food meal. I sautéed a sliced onion, sliced red pepper, chopped garlic and chicken of the woods mushroom pieces – for about 10 minutes total of cooking time. I covered it with a lid for the last five minutes to make sure the mushrooms were fully cooked. Green peppers would have been a nice addition but we...
by Noel | Nov 13, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
I prepared horseradish sauce yesterday. I ran the horseradish twice through a food processor, first slicing, then shredding the pieces of root. As I was shredding, I added enough vinegar to keep the horseradish from drying out or heating up. The vinegar helps retain the hot flavor and allows it to keep for a while in the refrigerator. It will last a couple months. It’s a tasty condiment and it has an impressive list of purported health benefits. I grow...
by Noel | Aug 17, 2014 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening, Recipes
Judy made this season’s first salsa yesterday. It’s about as local as you can get. Everything in it is from the garden except the lime. Here’s the recipe: 2 cups chopped cherry tomatoes – red, yellow, orange – most any tomato will work, but the cherry tomatoes, especially the orange Sungolds, give it a particular zing. ¼ c. chopped red onion 3 cloves garlic – chopped finely 1 T. hot pepper (or to taste) – chopped finely ½ c. cilantro – chopped 1 lime –...
by Judy | Aug 16, 2014 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
We spent an extra long weekend in Pittsburgh for the Garden Writers’ Conference, touring public and private gardens, learning what garden writers learn when they go to school, and connecting with old friends and making new ones. When we came back last Tuesday the garden was bursting with produce. The big bowl above is just a small portion of what we’ve harvested in the last couple of days. Of course, I had to make our favorite summer casserole which uses up...
