by Judy | Apr 25, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
We harvested a plethora of onions last year. We still have yellow copra onions which store quite well. Then there are the red onions which don’t store quite as well. Those are definitely sprouting, so I cut out the sprouts and use what I can. I’ve been using them like crazy but then I use onions in just about everything I cook. I have frozen chopped onions but I wanted to use the fresh onions as much as I could. So I turned to the internet –...
by Judy | Feb 27, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Several years ago I posted a recipe for Leek and Potato soup using our purple potatoes here. Hey, a potato is a potato no matter what color they are…. There are lots of various recipes for this type of soup, not the least of which is in the cook book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”. This time I used mashed potatoes….from the freezer…and frozen leek slices. Obviously you can use fresh leeks and leftover mashed potatoes from...
by Judy | Dec 2, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
The idea for this recipe was inspired from an hors d’oeuvres sandwich we enjoyed at the GWA (Garden Writers Association) Conference in Buffalo this past summer. It was called a Beet Slider which consisted of a small dinner-size buttered roll spread with horseradish and a thick slice of cooked beet. It slid down very nicely! I had some cooked beets and no dinner rolls so I tried the next best thing. I tossed some cubed beets with horseradish, added a...
by Judy | Nov 9, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
This year was not particularly good for our pepper harvest. It may have been the location and the fact that the ever so tall Jerusalem artichokes blocked the east sun from the patch. That won’t happen next year. Live and learn. Luckily we had a late frost so when Noel pulled the last of the pepper plants from the garden on October 30th, we had a bonus – a couple dozen shishito peppers. We had never grown them before so I thought they were immature...
by Judy | Oct 20, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
This has been the year of the cucumber for us. I still have a dozen cucumbers sitting on the table (in mid-October, no less) but I think the vines have died back and that will be the last of them. We ate plain cucumber spears, chopped cucumbers with tomatoes and onions and various combinations of fresh veggies, with or without dressing, and cucumber soup. I made 2 different kinds of savory sliced refrigerator pickles including one with vinegar and one...
