Ice Ice Baby

We have had all four seasons here at The Acre this past week. It started out with ice.

 In between the start and finish of the week we had spring and summer. Some days in the 40's, some days in the upper 60's. We planted our onions, peas and salad fixings, we always plant our peas around St. Patrick's day. Speaking of, we skirted the corned beef and cabbage for home made pizza. It's still legal, we added green olives.

We smoked meat one day. We smoked enough for a few meals all at once. We found a recipe for a beer brine chicken, so we gave it a whirl. We took a whole chicken around five pounds and soaked it for twenty four hours with garlic and Slap Ya Mama with about a quart or two of Pabst Blue Ribbon from the Man Cave Bar.

  It turned out really well. The meat was tender and had a unique flavor. We picked the bones for chicken pot pie and chicken salad for Cupcake's lunch this coming week.

And we added a few ribs to the smoker. Wade's meat can't be beat for rib smoking, we will never go back to Wal-Mart sold ribs.

And what would all that meat be without a fresh made apple pie?

Our big project for the week was chicken eggs in the incubator. We ordered a half dozen lavender Amerucana's for hatching. We waited two weeks, but the good old USPS lost the package. So we ordered another half dozen from another farm, and they arrived in two days. We added a dozen or so of our own Amerucana eggs to the batch. We love raising chickens from birth to layers, it's been an Acre tradition since Cupcake arrived.

It takes twenty one days from start to hatch, so look for results of our project in three weeks. We ended the week with Chicken Wing Sunday and snow.

K&K