by Judy | Jun 28, 2024 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, CobraHead, dessert pizza, Recipes, strawberry dessert
We had a nice crop of strawberries this year, though we had to share some with the birds and voles. As I was trying to figure out a garden-related recipe to share I thought of this fruit pizza that my friend Eve used to make for potlucks. I had previously made fruit pizzas from a recipe I got from the Wyandotte News Herald many years ago when we lived in Michigan. It used a sugar cookie dough instead of the shortbread dough and the glaze was a thinned apricot jam....
by Judy | May 31, 2024 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, CobraHead, Recipes, Rhubarb Bread
It’s rhubarb time. I dug out my old 'Jane Brody Good Food Book' and experimented with her rhubarb banana crisp recipe. I was hoping the bananas would be the magic needed to cut way back on the sugar needed for the tart stalks. It was okay, and did the trick, but the dish didn't go over very well with the troops. I have made my usual and favorite Rhubarb Crisp already. Recipe here. My Rhubarb Ginger Pie recipe is here. This time I made a quick...
by Judy | Apr 30, 2024 | CobraHead
One of the advantages of leaving plants in the garden overwinter is that some of them sprout again or regrow from the root. Different types of kale can be annuals or biennials. The several types of kale that we grew last year have grown new edible leaves this spring. It’s fun to be able to forage in your own garden as the snow melts away. The young tender leaves are great in a salad, and as they mature into a chewier leaf, they work well in a stir fry or...
by Judy | Mar 29, 2024 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, CobraHead, savory sweet potatoes, sweet potato latkes, sweet potatoes
In spite of the hungry voles that ravaged our sweet potato patch we still have at least 40 lbs in storage. So I started looking through my cookbooks and was reminded about this latke recipe that I used to make several years ago from the book "Vegetarian Planet" by Didi Emmons, published in 1997. It's interesting how you cycle through recipes and then forget about them for a while. Anyway, if you think you don't care for sweet potatoes because...
by Judy | Feb 29, 2024 | #CobraHeadFolksEat Good, #JudyValdes, Adirondack Blue Potatoes, CobraHead, Recipes
We are still eating our Adirondack Blue potatoes (and other types) from last year’s harvest. They have done very well in Noel’s make-shift above ground root cellar in the barn. I have adapted our usual cheesy garlic potato bake and added some frozen green beans, also from last year’s garden. This dish was originally from Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and has evolved over the past fifty years in my kitchen...