This past week was a bit of a battery recharge week. Both Cupcake and I had a touch of a bug that has been going around, so we took it easy in our off time. I did manage to grab a basket full of collar greens from the garden before it rained one day, and canned four more quarts for winter. We now have every quart jar in the house full of something. We either have to stop canning or buy more jars. I see more jars in our future...
While I was taking it easy this week, I spent a bit of time in a couple of Facebook groups I had joined a while back, both were MP related groups. The members were posting their pictures from back in the day which got me motivated to share some of mine. While I was rummaging through my old photo albums, I came across several of me and what they call today my "battle buddy".
I did a FB search, and low and behold, I found him living up in Boston. We reconnected and even had a chance to chat each other up this weekend. I've not yet told him he needs a nickname for blog mentions, so an old pic will have to do for now. KM, if you see this, let a brother know if you have a nickname you use or wanna use.
Since "Speedy" killed his first deer of the season, I took a leg and used a meat pokie thingy to tenderize the leg, then soaked it in buttermilk for five days to break down the meat a bit.
After five days in the buttermilk, I washed it off and gave it a nice rubdown in dry rub, then back into the fridge over the weekend.
This morning I took it out and wrapped it in bacon, and fired up Oklahoma Joe. Fraidy Mutt loves her some smoker time, and since we had our first frost this morning I'm sure she enjoyed having a fire even more than usual.
After a few hours, I brought the internal temp to *145 and took the leg off the smoker, foiled it and wrapped it until dinner. I'm whipping up a cast iron skillet full of roasted potatoes and carrots and a cherry cobbler made from our cherry tree out back to go along with it tonight. That's all the news that is new and improved from Arlee's Acre.
K&K
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