Brutal Cold?

This past week the Facebook feed has been flush with all things cold. The lamestream news label the cold as "Polar Vortex" and "Brutal Cold". When I was stationed in Colorado with the 4th Infantry Division, we were an arctic warfare, rapid deployment force. So we called weather like this "Tuesday". Big Man has been cold before, and this aint it.
But we did see a bit of snow this past week, Chirruns got a little time off from school, and the wild life activity has picked up around The Acre.

The egg ladies were not impressed once again with the snow

But it sure is pretty to see coming down

And as we always do, when it snows, Big Man smoked some meat. This week it was half a pork loin wrapped in bacon. It was the best loin to date.

And we tried a new DIY project (if you can imagine that) home made butter. It was simple to make, but took about fifteen minutes in the mixer. We started with a quart of room temperature heavy whipping cream and a mixer with a stir attachment.

We turned the mixer on the lowest setting and let it run. It took about fifteen minutes on low, then all at once it changed to butter. I asked Pop's about this, and he said in the old days when he churned butter at home, it did the same thing, so we chalked this up to normal and moved on.

Working smarter instead of harder, Big Man poured the mixture into a towel, and squeezed the buttermilk from the butter, and saved the milk for biscuits on Sunday morning.

Once again we will say it, home made is way better than store bought. It works much better when we fried eggs and roasted pecans, and it's awful tasty on biscuits, made with the home made buttermilk. We don't waste much here at The Acre. And in the spirit of not wasting, while Big Man made butter, Cupcake repaired Deadshot's blanket.

We also made another batch of butter pecan ice cream

And we experimented with home made croutons with left over bread.

We ended the week with "Chicken Wing Sunday" as is our tradition.
K&K