by Noel | May 25, 2011 | Gardening
People go crazy over morel mushrooms. They can sell for $40 a pound. I found a few yesterday in the woods, but over the years I’ve never had a major haul. I didn’t even realize they appeared on the property until about six years ago. One year I found about 25, but I was a couple days late and they were well past their prime and inedible. Judy sautéed up the four I found and we had them with dinner. Morels have an interesting chewy texture, almost...
by Geoff | May 17, 2011 | Gardening, Recipes
This afternoon I made a cup of yaupon tea from the leaves of one of the shrubs that’s growing in my backyard. As I write this I think that the caffeine buzz has begun to hit me. Yaupon holly, a relative of Yerba Mate, is the only native North American plant that contains caffeine. Yaupon has the unfortunate scientific name of Ilex vomitoria. According to Charles Hudson, in his introduction to the book Black Drink: A Native American Tea, the scientific name...
by Noel | May 17, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
The 200 plus strawberry plants in the foreground are in a very temporary home. They are banked, trenched, or heeled in; a process of laying plants in a trench and covering the roots with soil. Here they can reside until they can be relocated. A few of these transplants were retrieved from a four old bed that I dug out last week, but most were dug out from runners in the paths on either side of the center bed in the background. 100 of these plants have already...
by Anneliese | May 15, 2011 | Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Gardening
Well it’s Bloom Day again, and I’m ashamed to admit that it’s been a rather long time since I last put up a Bloom Day post. Even longer still since I’ve posted about my own garden. It’s not that I have a shortage of flowers during the “warm” months (I put warm in quotes because it’s currently in the 50s and rainy here), I just usually tend to forget to take pictures of them. But not today! For your viewing enjoyment...
by Judy | May 14, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Asparagus, again? We’re eating asparagus every day now. I’ve been cutting asparagus tips since the end of April. At first it was every other day, now it’s mandatory cutting every day. For brunch last weekend we tried it roasted with baked eggs on top. I’d never baked eggs sunny side up before – pretty tasty. Today, as a little side dish I chopped the asparagus spears into ¼” diagonal slices. I used my western-style Santoku knife which made short work...
