by Anneliese | Dec 11, 2020 | CobraHead
Our office downtown You may not realize it, but for much of CobraHead’s existence, we ran the entire operation out of Noel and Judy’s basement, garage, barn, and, yes, even their dining room. It certainly saved us money on monthly expenses, but it wasn’t exactly conducive to, you know, living in an actual house. Andy with some of our inventory So, two years ago we finally rented the ground floor office space in a building in downtown Cambridge,...
by Judy | Dec 11, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes
Alias Grandmom’s Cornbread with Value Added Our new favorite cornbread recipe came accidentally. Unless you’re one of ten million plus Instagram followers of a certain famous actress you may not have seen it. Sorry to say I am not a follower either but the recipe caught my eye on some foodie site. It’s baked in a preheated cast iron pan in a similar style to the no knead bread I’ve been baking. And...
by Judy | Nov 24, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes
In case you missed it the first time I’m republishing my Potato Rosti recipe. This time I used King Harry potatoes from the garden and Gruyere Swiss cheese. When doing a little research on what type of potato to use (I use what I have) apparently a waxy type of potato holds its shape better. Baking type potatoes turn out more like mashed potatoes inside. There is also some controversy on using raw versus precooked potatoes. I’m...
by Noel | Nov 23, 2020 | CobraHead, Gardening
I’m ahead of the game! At least for the moment. All my open beds are weeded and shaped up, and I’ve put them to bed for the winter with the thickest leaf covering they have ever enjoyed. I reap huge benefits by covering the garden with leaves. The soil remains softer as the leaves act as an insulator and protector from winter weather. Weed growth is almost non-existent, no sunshine – no weeds. In the spring, many of the beds will be ready to...
by Judy | Oct 26, 2020 | CobraHead, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
Galeux d’Eysines a.k.a. peanut pumpkin (pronounced Gal-oh d’zeen), is a French heirloom squash. Our seeds came from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. They are also available from Johnny’s Selected Seeds and several other seed companies. Peanut Squash Galeux D’Eysines Noel cut the squash in half and the seeds were scraped out, washed, and roasted. We did save a few of the raw seeds for planting. Here’s how we...
by Judy | Sep 22, 2020 | CobraHead, Foraging, Recipes
We have about two acres of woods on our property and each year we seem to find new things. They were probably there all along but went unnoticed by us. Actually this year didn’t start out great for mushrooms. The morel harvest was hit and miss mostly due to the temperature and rainfall fluctuation not meshing at the right time for ideal growing conditions. We did have a few shiitake harvests on our old oak logs that Noel inoculated about 5...
