by Anneliese | Jun 27, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
Noel and I made another video last week demonstrating how he uses a few different tools to help him clean out a totally overgrown, weedy garden bed. As you can see in the video, a few of the beds in the vegetable garden have grown out of control. The daunting task of clearing the beds was made quite a lot easier with the use of proper hand tools.
by Judy | Jun 26, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
We have polished off the last of the garden asparagus. I did freeze a couple of containers of blanched asparagus puree with lemon for seasoning. Since I’m always reading recipes I don’t remember where I saw that idea. We’ll see how we like it this winter tossed with pasta or perhaps as a soup seasoning. My new favorite way to serve this tasty spring morsel is roasted. And what better way to enhance the dish than to toss it with roasted potatoes. Add a splash...
by Noel | Jun 21, 2011 | CobraHead
Last weekend Anneliese, Judy and I exhibited at the 2011 MREA Energy Fair. I’ve posted about this show in previous years because it is one of our favorites. MREA attracts an audience that is far more in tune with the issues of sustainability than the general population, and many of the attendees are home gardeners. In other words, it’s a friendly audience that will buy our tools. Trade shows where we can sell product can be great for us because we...
by Noel | Jun 20, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
We came home late last night from four days on the road after a trade show. It’s the time of the season when we should be picking strawberries twice a day, so we lost a few berries to birds and over ripeness, but we still had a huge amount waiting for us, which I harvested this morning. We’ll be freezing some, turning some into strawberry jam, and enjoying mouthfuls of the rest eaten fresh.
by Geoff | Jun 17, 2011 | Recipes
With all of the sweet potato recipes that we like to cook, we’ve had yet to make sweet potato fries. So last week I had some friends over to test my oven-baked version of this dish. Per tray: Enough Peeled and sliced sweet potatoes to cover tray without touching each other ¾ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon cumin Black pepper Enough olive oil to completely cover potatoes thoroughly Preheat oven to 425-450 (depending on oven) Peel sweet potatoes and cut into ½ inch wide...
