by Judy | Jan 15, 2019 | CobraHead, Recipes
This last growing season was a good year for butternut squash. At least for us here in southern Wisconsin. Below is one of many tasty ways to use this winter squash. Ingredients: 1 T. olive oil 2 C. chopped onions 1 medium to large butternut squash (5 cups – peeled, seeded and cubed) 1 cup chopped tomatoes (canned, fresh or frozen (I used frozen) 1 – 4 1/2 oz can green chiles (if you have time roast, peel, seed & chop fresh poblanos or Anaheim...
by Judy | Nov 19, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
This past Saturday I cooked up our first butternut squash (of about a baker’s dozen harvested this year). This interesting recipe in an issue of Food and Wine Magazine caught my eye and I happened to have all the ingredients on hand. I should clarify that…I had butternut squash but not the kabocha as the recipe also called for. Anyway, I made it with all butternut squash instead of the mix and used the Jarlsberg Swiss cheese that I had on hand. One...
by Noel | Oct 23, 2018 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
I made almost two pints of hot sauce using three different chili peppers: A standard Cayenne, a pepper we just call 3″ Hot, from seeds from a plant my neighbor gave me years ago, and a couple handfuls of little Thai hot peppers. The Thai peppers are the plants that look like a little Christmas tree, loaded with tiny extremely hot peppers. Normally I wouldn’t use these little peppers, and I won’t again. They are just too small to be worth the trouble. But...
by Judy | Aug 29, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Who doesn’t love a good side of fried potatoes and onions? And who doesn’t feel like they have a leaden belly after eating too much of a good thing? 🙂 This recipe does double duty of using up a garden zucchini while also lightening up that traditional potato dish a little bit. Your belly will thank you. You can vary the ingredient proportions pretty significantly, but it’s best if you keep the ratio between 1/3 zucchini to 2/3 potatoes up to...
by Judy | Jul 31, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
We have been growing our own shiitake mushrooms at the edge of our woods for about the last ten years. While it’s fun to walk outside and harvest them, you do have to pay attention to the weather or you can miss some good eating. The shiitakes fruit best when temperatures are between the fifties to the seventies. They don’t do much in really hot weather. But that doesn’t mean they can’t sneak up on you. If you get a day or two of rain...
by Judy | Jun 26, 2018 | CobraHead, Recipes
Further to Noel’s post on chicken of the woods mushrooms we had chicken (of the woods) fajitas last night for dinner. It was a home cooked fast food meal. I sautéed a sliced onion, sliced red pepper, chopped garlic and chicken of the woods mushroom pieces – for about 10 minutes total of cooking time. I covered it with a lid for the last five minutes to make sure the mushrooms were fully cooked. Green peppers would have been a nice addition but we...
