Spring Flours

With winter in it's death throws, everyone is looking forward to spring. April showers and spring flowers and all that. We are too, but you may have noticed the spelling of the title? We noticed this week we have a diverse collection of flour.

We have from left to right: Biscuit flour, bread flour, self rising, pie crust, seasoned and all purpose. Until last week, dinner rolls have vexed Big Man, which really throws his OCD in to overdrive. But after discovering bread flour, mystery solved.

Dinner rolls, done right

And with the pressure off, pizza dough became the focus this week. We made one pizza last week with store bought dough, and our home made sauce.

We should have taken a pic earlier

Big Man thought he could make dough, and we should make it in cast iron (shocking, we know). So we did, and it turned out better than we expected.

Dough pressed out, ready for making. With one left over for next time

Ten minutes in the oven, coated in olive oil

Toppings complete.

End result

Bottom of the crust, crispy

Winter still made its presence felt this past week, we had another pretty good snow fall, and the deer came for a visit. Cupcake shared a couple apples with them, and they expressed their gratitude.

"Neener Neener"

We also used the smoker, and made another apple pie. We have hit on apples that make a real difference in home made apple pie, and Cupcake says she could eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which is high praise.

Smoked Ribs, this batch from Wades meat counter

Apple Pie

We also did usual stuff, home made butter and another batch of laundry detergent. We ended with Chicken Wing Sunday, so the world is as it should be.
Next week we look forward to putting our lavender chicken eggs and ameracauna eggs in the incubator. It's chicken hatching season.
K&K