We had a busy weekend, last minute gift wrapping and whatnots. We also spent most of our time in the kitchen.
The Chirruns had a death in the family, and Big Man was requested to whip up a cherry cobbler, which we took as high praise.
We also spent the day making cheese balls. Cupcake is like the Big Man when it comes to cheese balls, she does not use a recipe, she goes by look and instinct. These turned out really well, even if it is short on onions (by Light standards).
Deadshot is no fan of onions at all, so we cut out a small ball for her, with no onions
Big man spent the day baking cookies. The new cookie is the cranberry walnut he found a recipe for on the Old Farmers Almanac. They really turned out well, and even had a request for some from Rhulenbarb's parents, which again, was taken as high praise.
After baking, we did a couple outside things, even in the rain. Our ladies had stopped laying eggs over the past month, and we were becoming concerned. Cupcake, being the research specialist she is, found that many people across the country were experiencing the same problem, so we took it as a bird thing. We changed their diet a little, and added alfalfa pellets to their diet, and now we're back to getting eggs. This is one of our second generation ladies, we hatched her this spring, now she's bringing the love to our cast iron skillet on a daily basis.
It was raining, but it was almost 65 degrees out, Big Man changed the oil in Cupcake's truck. Even though she was told her truck was impossible to self change. We are working on the assumption Big Man is a better mechanic than the person who told her it couldn't be done.
Final prep for Christmas, Big Man smoked our country ham. He has never smoked a piece of meat this large before, but we are all standing by for ham biscuits. Follow up report may be in order.
As always, we ended with "Chicken Wing Sunday" and even Pop came over for a helping or two.
Merry Christmas from our family to yours.
K&K
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