by Noel | Nov 13, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes, Vegetable Growing
I prepared horseradish sauce yesterday. I ran the horseradish twice through a food processor, first slicing, then shredding the pieces of root. As I was shredding, I added enough vinegar to keep the horseradish from drying out or heating up. The vinegar helps retain the hot flavor and allows it to keep for a while in the refrigerator. It will last a couple months. It’s a tasty condiment and it has an impressive list of purported health benefits. I grow...
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 Noel | Oct 30, 2017 | CobraHead, Garden Tools, Gardening
I think Rose Berry bought her first CobraHead from us at the Madison Garden Expo many years ago. Rose likes our products and she has purchased many tools for gardeners over the years. She let me know that she really could use a lot of CobraHead tools for a project she was involved with in Uganda. I let her know that I had a lot of obsolete but totally functional tools that I would be happy to donate. Rose is involved in several projects that help Ugandans live...
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...
by Noel | Oct 17, 2017 | CobraHead, Gardening
We harvested 89 pounds of sweet potatoes yesterday. That’s not a record, but it’s well above our normal yield, and we’re happy with the results. Our average sweet potato yield is about 80 pounds per bed. We grow a variety named Jewel (sometimes spelled Jewell). We’ve been growing Jewel from our own starts for over 10 years and we find it excellent for both yield and long-term storage, and they taste great, too! The potatoes were grown in...
by Judy | Aug 29, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
Well here we are again in zucchini tomato season. I first posted this recipe about five years ago here. I make it several times each year during the height of the season. It’s a tasty stick to your ribs meal. This time I layered the following items twice in a greased casserole dish. sliced potatoes sliced zucchini sliced onions sliced tomatoes (or chopped) shredded mozzarella cheese fresh chopped basil salt and pepper to taste Bake covered at 375 degress...
