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 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 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...
by Judy | Feb 27, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
Stir fries are a good way to use up small amounts of various veggies. If you add some tofu or other protein it’s a very satisfying meal. Here’s what I came up with this time. 8 oz tofu, cubed 2 dried shiitake mushrooms 1 cup water 1 T. Tamari Simmer the above ingredients and drain, reserving the liquid. Chop the mushrooms (discarding the harder stems, and set the tofu mushroom mix aside. 2 T. Olive Oil 1 T. fresh ginger, minced 1 T. garlic, minced 1...
by Judy | Feb 26, 2017 | CobraHead, Recipes
“It is a homely thing in one or another sense of the word, depending on your point of views.” Glyn Lloyd-Hughes, Description of Shepherd’s Pie: The Foods of England I should perhaps title this recipe Shepherdess Pie which apparently is a variation made without meat but I hadn’t heard the term before I started looking at recipes. Shepherd’s Pie was traditionally made with minced lamb and Cottage Pie was made with minced beef....
