by Noel | Apr 27, 2021 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
Sweet Potato Starts Last month I wrote about a failure of my own making with some onion starts. This month the news is much better. I have a healthy and happy box of sweet potato starts that should be large and strong when it comes time to put them in the ground at the end of May. I get my starts from 2 year old sweet potatoes that I’ve allowed to sprout in the basement. I’ve talked about this method before: ...
by Noel | Mar 26, 2021 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing
I’m usually pretty good with my seed starting. I’ve got a light and heat setup that I’ve been modifying over the years and I almost always get good starts from my seeds, especially onions. This year I messed up. I had two flats of yellow onions under a grow light and over a heat mat, and I didn’t pay attention for one day. That proved costly. The onions were just starting to sprout, and they got too dry and too hot. I killed off most of them. I wasn’t sure...
by Judy | Mar 26, 2021 | CobraHead, Recipes
3 T. Olive Oil, divided We were lucky to have a bountiful pepper harvest last year due to Noel’s diligence in the garden. Not only did we have more hot peppers than we could use, we had enough sweet peppers to freeze in strips which is what I used in the recipe below. 3 sweet bell peppers (Green, red or purple, Yellow), sliced lengthwise into 1/2″ strips. I used frozen pepper slices from last year’s garden. 3 T. olive oil, divided 1 large...
by Judy | Feb 17, 2021 | CobraHead, Recipes
One of my favorite Neapolitan style pizzas is from Pizza Brutta in Madison, WI. I was trying to recreate it from memory. I came up with a delicious pizza but after I looked at the description on their website it turns out we were missing mushroom paste or puree – something I’ve never used before. Of course there is a recipe on the internet for the paste so next time I’ll give that a try! Also, they used Fontina cheese and...
by Noel | Jan 21, 2021 | CobraHead
We’ve foraged a lot of wild mushrooms in our yard over the years, and we’ve also purposely grown shiitake on logs several times, but we’ve never grown mushrooms in the house before. The mushroom is closely related to more familiar Lion’s Mane – Hericium erinaceus. It’s a beautiful fungus that looks like coral. It has a little sea-food taste and it easy to work with. The stem part is quite chewy, but if it’s chopped small, that’s not an...
by Judy | Jan 18, 2021 | CobraHead, Recipes
Preheat oven to 400 degrees 3 Quart Covered Casserole Dish Ingredients: 1/2 pound firm or super firm tofu 2 T. Tamari 8-10 cups vegetables I used: potatoes – 3-4 cut into 4-6 pieces carrots – 2 cut into 3-4 pieces 4-6 onions – whole if small, or halved or quartered depending upon size 1 bulb garlic, separated and peeled butternut squash slices – I had about a quarter of a medium size squash cabbage – 3-4 wedges cut in half...
