by Noel | Jan 30, 2012 | CobraHead, Gardening
Geoff posted last week about the heat mat set up he is using to start some pepper plants, here. I use a heat mat and grow-lights as well to start peppers, tomatoes, and other vegetable seedlings that need a jump start, and I’ve also found the set up useful to give some bottom heat to my sweet potato starts well ahead of the time I need to get my peppers started. Since I don’t need very much space for the sweet potatoes, I use the mat and lights to...
by Judy | Jan 25, 2012 | CobraHead, Recipes
I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with all that frozen pumpkin puree I have in the freezer. Well, I’m pondering no longer. I’m getting back into old-fashioned bread making, and adding pumpkin to whole wheat yeast bread has been a winner. We can only make or tolerate so many pumpkin pies and quick breads. And pumpkin or squash soups go a long way too. But who doesn’t love a piece (or two or three) of freshly baked bread and butter? The...
by Noel | Jan 6, 2012 | CobraHead, Environmental Issues, Gardening
The weather in Wisconsin has been super freaky. With highs of 50 yesterday and again today following a December with no snow and exceptionally mild temperatures, a lot of the locals are saying, “what the hey, this ain’t all bad!” I have to say yes and no. It’s kind of scary, and from a gardener’s perspective, in most ways not so good. I love a deep snow cover on my garden beds. The snow offers insulation and moisture. And too...
by Judy | Jan 5, 2012 | CobraHead, Recipes
Turning Slicer Last September Noel & Anneliese were vendors at the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, PA. The booth next to them was “Wild Success” promoting their raw foods and kitchen equipment. When Noel called to ask me if I needed anything I said, “not really but if you see something really cool you can surprise me.” Well ‘my surprise’ was a Spirooli or an Italian designed ‘turning slicer’ or ‘taglialegumi’ if you will. I think it was Anneliese...
by Judy | Dec 30, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
One of our favorite winter salads is coleslaw. We had a really good cabbage harvest this year – red and green alike, so we are still eating this from our own garden. Cabbage is a good keeper and we had 2 in the fridge just waiting for good things to happen to them. We also had a few garden leeks lurking in the produce drawer and they make a great substitute for green onions when you want a little flavor but not the strong taste of regular chopped onions....
by Noel | Dec 18, 2011 | CobraHead
The Winter Solstice is December 22nd this year, but we celebrated a few days early because it’s always easier to party hard on Saturday night as opposed to Thursday.Here is Anneliese supplicating the winter spirits in front of the solstice fire while Geoff is a rather bemused observer.The ancients took the winter solstice very seriously. For some it meant appealing to the gods to make sure the days did not keep getting shorter until it was an...
