by Judy | Dec 30, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
One of our favorite winter salads is coleslaw. We had a really good cabbage harvest this year – red and green alike, so we are still eating this from our own garden. Cabbage is a good keeper and we had 2 in the fridge just waiting for good things to happen to them. We also had a few garden leeks lurking in the produce drawer and they make a great substitute for green onions when you want a little flavor but not the strong taste of regular chopped onions....
by Noel | Dec 18, 2011 | CobraHead
The Winter Solstice is December 22nd this year, but we celebrated a few days early because it’s always easier to party hard on Saturday night as opposed to Thursday.Here is Anneliese supplicating the winter spirits in front of the solstice fire while Geoff is a rather bemused observer.The ancients took the winter solstice very seriously. For some it meant appealing to the gods to make sure the days did not keep getting shorter until it was an...
by Geoff | Dec 14, 2011 | Gardening
In October I wrote about the project that I did with Save Our Youth making self-watering planters out of reclaimed five gallon buckets. You can read the original post here. I decided to modify the original design and turn it into a strawberry planter. First a note about strawberries in Austin: They are normally planted in the fall here and treated as an annual crop. I’m a little late in my planting this year. The plants fruit in the spring, but rarely survive...
by Judy | Dec 13, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Need a quick meal to put on the table while you’re ‘busy’ doing holiday preparations? This dish is a great way to ‘re-purpose’ leftover chili if you have about 4 cups from a previous meal. If that’s the case it takes about ten minutes to put together & it’s ready for the oven. But no problem if no leftovers – it’s still a relatively easy dish to make and you can get creative with the type of beans and seasonings. Don’t be afraid to spice it up. The corn...
by Noel | Dec 12, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
The outdoor season is over for my 2011 Wisconsin garden. I may do a little more clean up, and possibly drag in a few leaves to cover up some north beds, but the frost has already penetrated deep and there is nothing left to harvest. There will be no more weeding or working the soil. All my efforts now are in preparing for next year. Gardening patterns and habits repeat themselves as you learn what has to be done to ensure a good harvest, but that hardly means...
