SNOW!

For our two or three regular followers, you know we love us some snow here at The Acre. November jumped off with a white ground for us, and we were quite excited. Cupcake's snow dance paid off once again.

Still counts.
Mostly cooking related items this week, so lets get started with the new obsession here at The Acre. Apple cake. We made one last week, but we used pecans. This week Big Man whipped up a cake using fresh cracked black walnuts that we picked up a while back. Each time we let the dog out, we crack four nuts while she's doing her business. Before long, we have a bag full.

The Big Man then made his soon to be world famous, cream cheese icing for the cake. He claims he will take the recipe to the grave.

The next item was smoked meat. Chicken this week. We found a ten pound roaster on sale, so we smoked it up for dinner, on cake night.

Along with the fresh green beans from a couple weeks ago, we had a fine dinner. And since it was such a big bird, we had leftovers. And what's better to do with leftover smoked chicken? Chicken and dumplings.

And you have to have fresh bread with chicken and dumplings. We do, anyway. So we made a loaf of peasant bread, in cast iron, of course.

And while all the cooking was going on this week, we let Fraidy Mutt into the house. She helped taste test the food. She's helpful like that.

And next, we tried a new thing this week. Home made German style mustard.

We used Irish beer this week, but we are going to make another batch to can next week using German beer. We will see if it changes the taste.

And, we made another batch of cranberry sauce. Nine pints from three batches. We figured if we did this ever two weeks or so, we will be all set my new years for next year.

And last but not least, as we were picking up the Irish beer, Cupcake pointed to a large bottle of beer and said "that's what Outlaw calls you" so we picked up a bottle, just for nostalgia reasons.

We ended our week with chicken wing Sunday.
K&K