One Week Till Turkey Day

This past week was another slow one. I got to smoke a couple of meals with the smoker, deer proofed the fruit trees in the garden and baked a cobbler for a neighbor one night.

Speedy killed another buck, but he donated that one to a family who has yet to get any deer meat in the freezer, like we said, he's a good egg.
One of the meals I smoked up was deer backstrap wrapped in bacon. Backstrap is not a very thick piece of meat, so it only took a couple hours of slow smoking to bring it up to temp, but it sure did taste good when I did.

Backstrap and bacon before

End result, mighty tasty

Smoked chicken with a three day rub

Peach and Pear cobbler

We tried a new thing this week, home made pie crust. With the leftover smoked chicken picked off the bone, we were looking for something new to do with the meat. Big man thought, chicken pot pie. We searched the usual suspect pages for a recipe for pie crust, and all the pages called for "two pre-made pie shells. That just wont do for The Acre.
Big man experimented with flour and butter until he hit on a mix that turned out right. It rolled out right, and baked up right. Once again, this was far better than store bought and we look forward to making pumpkin pie with our new found pie crust mixture. The smoked chicken pot pie will be a new addition to The Acre.

No awards for presentation, but no leftovers either

Deer proofing the fruit trees came a little late for this one

This is a pear tree we planted in the front yard for future shade. I never imagined a buck would get that close to the house, especially with two highly trained killers lurking behind each window and door. I was wrong. I expect this tree will be dead as a hammer next spring.  We have six more inside the fenced in garden, and the fence is electric. I thought this would keep deer out, since it has kept the garden safe the past four years. This year do to a lack of acorns, the deer are bold and unpredictable, and have been in the garden all fall going after the corn stalks we didnt use for decoration.
I didnt want the fruit trees in there to end up like the pear tree out front, so I rigged up a quick fix.

The white string is really electric fence wire, and the fence is on. Any buck wanting to scrape our fruit trees is gonna get a shocking experience. I guess we will just have to keep the ones with horns hanging on the wall of the garage?

2012 bow kill in a place of honor

We hope to have a weekend update, if nothing else, we will share chicken wing Sunday.
K&K