by Judy | Dec 16, 2015 | CobraHead, Gardening, Recipes
We still have Brussels sprouts growing in the garden. They can tolerate light freezes and even colder temperatures if covered with straw or leaves – which we have done. Most years I pick the sprouts before it gets super cold, then blanch and freeze them. This year the freezer was already at capacity so that was not an option. Lately I’ve been roasting the sprouts. There are lots of variations on the theme but basically the vegetables are tossed with...
by Judy | Nov 2, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
Above is a picture of the purple sauerkraut I started a couple of days ago with cabbage, ginger, dill and hot pepper. We had about ten cabbages of four different varieties in this year’s garden. Since we don’t have a great way to store them fresh for any length of time I went on a fermentation binge. Three years ago when I made my first successful ferment I wrote about the method used here. While that’s a perfectly fine method I was introduced...
by Judy | Jun 18, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
Pea pods or snow peas are in – just in time to take over the green aspect in the kitchen from the dwindling asparagus patch. The young and tender pods are great eaten right off the vine. They’re good raw and also make a crunchy addition to a stir fry as long as you don’t overcook them. Here’s what I came up with for dinner a couple of nights ago: Snow Pea Mushroom Tofu Stir Fry Recipe 2 T. olive oil or your favorite stir fry oil 1/2 cup...
by Judy | Jun 12, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
With the abundance of radishes in the garden this year I’m trying something new. We’ve always eaten our radishes raw, right out of the garden, or sliced in our salads. I had heard of cooking radishes but never tried it myself. Noel keeps bringing in radish thinnings (some not so thin) from the plantings used as row markers for the carrots, beets and turnips. The first handful of pea pods were a beautiful and vigorous snow pea called Giant Swiss that we...
by Judy | Jun 8, 2015 | CobraHead, Recipes
Noel has mustard greens growing like weeds in the garden. He planted the mustard along with various lettuces at the edges of the pea patch and also interspersed them with the garlic plants. Some of what doesn’t get eaten will go to flower to attract pollinators and generate more seeds for future crops. Honey bees love the mustard flowers, and so do a wide variety of other pollinators. Any mustard plant that gets in the way of our pea and garlic crops will...
