by Anneliese | Aug 6, 2010 | Environmental Issues, Gardening, Recipes
Well, it’s harvest time again, and the fruit flies are starting to find their way into the kitchen. They have also managed to find their way back into my worm bin, and I’m not totally cool with that. I don’t think Phil minds too much, but I’m not terribly fond of the little buggers. So now I guess it’s time to set up the traps again. There are plenty of different techniques for making fruit fly traps, but this one has worked pretty...
by Judy | Aug 5, 2010 | Gardening, Recipes
It definitely depends upon your perspective. For us we’re at the beginning of the summer squash season, and so far so good. I’ve been very diligent in checking and picking the young fruits every day. Yesterday morning I looked to see what we’d have for dinner & decided to pick the zucchini just before cooking. I’m positive that the earmarked one was twice the size from morning ‘til night. Well…at least 50% bigger! They will get ahead of me, they always...
by Judy | Jun 29, 2010 | Gardening, Recipes
Our June-bearing strawberry patch is done for the year. The berries needed to be picked every day for about 3 weeks or so. We put some away in the freezer – bagged a few for future smoothies, sliced and lightly sugared some for future short cakes or pies and made a couple jars of jam. The best part of having backyard berries is eating them fresh every day. But have you ever wished for something just a little bit more than fresh fruit for dessert but no time...
by Judy | Jun 14, 2010 | Recipes
Asparagus Biscuit Loaf Following is my vegetarian version of a Tuna Biscuit Ring recipe that I cut out of a Gold Medal Flour bag almost 40 years ago. I’ve served it a lot over the years sometimes using salmon. I stopped making it into a ring shape because it was almost always lopsided though very interesting! When I managed to shape it just right it was quite the centerpiece on the table. I also cut back on tuna, though I love it, because of the mercury...
by Judy | Mar 24, 2010 | Recipes
It’s recipe time for the CobraHead Newsletter. For the last two months I had instructions not to use sweet potatoes or any potato in my recipe. But this time I snuck my proposal in before anyone could say anything. I don’t think they really minded though – these latkes are delicious. I’ll try to pace myself on the use of sweet potato recipes but we still have over 30 pounds left and they don’t sprout nearly as fast as the white spuds. 2...
by Judy | Feb 11, 2010 | Recipes
Souper Sunday has passed but it’s still soup weather here. Actually soup weather lasts a long, long time in Wisconsin! Following is a recipe that I think came from ‘Sundays at Moosewood’ cookbook. I don’t have a copy of the book so I can’t be sure and as a well-worn family favorite the soup formula is mostly in my head. Tomato, Lime, and Tortilla Soup (Sopa de Lima) 1-2 cups chopped onions 4 large garlic cloves, minced or pressed 3 T....
