by Judy | Oct 10, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Are you tired of tomatoes yet? Not here! It seems like the more I remove from the kitchen counters to cook down or preserve, the more that magically appear in their place. This year the first few batches of sauce were made in my usual way – boil the tomatoes for 30 seconds, skin and cut them up and simmer on the stove top for a few hours until thick enough for spaghetti sauce. Cool down and put in freezer containers. Then a few days ago I was reading a...
by Noel | Sep 15, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
Yesterday, the Weather Service forecast a hard freeze for Cambridge. The weather people always try to err on the worst case side of things, but you never know, so Judy and I covered everything we could with plastic or ag fabric. We managed to cover the tomatoes, the peppers, the squash, the sweet potatoes, the basil and remaining cukes, and some of the beans. While hardly an architectural masterpiece, form follows function, and Louis Sullivan would have to give...
by Geoff | Sep 15, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening
We’re giving away a CobraHead Weeder, a garden fork, and a kneeling pad, our Garden Essentials Package worth $89.95 to help Austin’s Urban Roots program – see the details at the end of the post. We’re also matching donations in kind with up to $1,000 worth of our tools and other products. Austin has an amazing youth agriculture program called Urban Roots, a program of Youth Launch. Now in its fourth year, Urban Roots is a youth development program that...
by Noel | Sep 11, 2011 | CobraHead
With Anneliese and Geoff off to California this week to represent CobraHead at the National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, it seems a little odd to be posting about a hybrid tomato. However, I grow hybrids frequently. Hybridizing has been around a long, long time and is something that can be accomplished by nearly anyone including the home gardener. Hybrid seeds should not be confused with genetically modified seeds. There are qualities that can be...
by Judy | Sep 10, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Garden meals are the name of the game around here during harvest season. As much as you’d like various items to ripen at different times the inevitable happens. It’s like being a kid in the proverbial candy store…. what do we eat first, next and thereafter? Last night’s meal was roasted green beans and cherry tomato pasta. Yum! Ever since I talked to my friend, Pat from Michigan, and her love for roasted green beans, I’ve been experimenting. The first time I...
by Geoff | Aug 31, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
This year I decided to finally grow papalo, Porophyllum ruderale, also known as quillquiña. This herb has a flavor somewhat similar to cilantro, but unlike that plant, it has thrived throughout a summer of triple digit days. Not having cooked with it before, it gave me an excuse to make a quick roasted salsa. Ingredients 1-2 tomatoes Several hot peppers, I used a mix of fresh and dried peppers 1-2 cloves garlic 1 small onion a handful of papalo leaves, chopped...
