by Judy | Aug 9, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Try this satisfying and tasty quiche. The potato crust takes less time than making a regular pie crust. You don’t have to feel guilty about using using a little sour cream in the filling because you’re not using a quarter of a pound of butter in the crust. Crust: 2-3 cups shredded potatoes (2-3 medium size potatoes, peeled or not) ¼ cup finely chopped onion 2 T. Olive Oil 1 clove garlic, pressed ¼ tsp salt Filling: 1 cup shredded Swiss or other...
by Judy | Jul 27, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
On a busy work day around here it’s not always easy to take time to cook. But if you have some fresh pasta in the fridge and a bulb of garlic you’re most of the way there. And do we have garlic! See Noel’s post about the Great Garlic Harvest. Fresh pasta is not mandatory but it only takes 2-3 minutes to cook if you happen to have some. 1 Head Garlic, peeled and sliced 3-4 T. Extra Virgin Olive Oil 8 oz fresh pasta (I used roasted red pepper linguine) Freshly...
by Judy | Jun 26, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
We have polished off the last of the garden asparagus. I did freeze a couple of containers of blanched asparagus puree with lemon for seasoning. Since I’m always reading recipes I don’t remember where I saw that idea. We’ll see how we like it this winter tossed with pasta or perhaps as a soup seasoning. My new favorite way to serve this tasty spring morsel is roasted. And what better way to enhance the dish than to toss it with roasted potatoes. Add a splash...
by Geoff | Jun 17, 2011 | Recipes
With all of the sweet potato recipes that we like to cook, we’ve had yet to make sweet potato fries. So last week I had some friends over to test my oven-baked version of this dish. Per tray: Enough Peeled and sliced sweet potatoes to cover tray without touching each other ¾ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon cumin Black pepper Enough olive oil to completely cover potatoes thoroughly Preheat oven to 425-450 (depending on oven) Peel sweet potatoes and cut into ½ inch wide...
by Geoff | May 17, 2011 | Gardening, Recipes
This afternoon I made a cup of yaupon tea from the leaves of one of the shrubs that’s growing in my backyard. As I write this I think that the caffeine buzz has begun to hit me. Yaupon holly, a relative of Yerba Mate, is the only native North American plant that contains caffeine. Yaupon has the unfortunate scientific name of Ilex vomitoria. According to Charles Hudson, in his introduction to the book Black Drink: A Native American Tea, the scientific name...
by Judy | May 14, 2011 | CobraHead, Recipes
Asparagus, again? We’re eating asparagus every day now. I’ve been cutting asparagus tips since the end of April. At first it was every other day, now it’s mandatory cutting every day. For brunch last weekend we tried it roasted with baked eggs on top. I’d never baked eggs sunny side up before – pretty tasty. Today, as a little side dish I chopped the asparagus spears into ¼” diagonal slices. I used my western-style Santoku knife which made short work...
