Back to our Regularly Scheduled Program

The holidays are over, the tree and decorations have been down all week, and it's time to get back to doing what we do around The Acre.
Cupcake is elbow deep into seed catalogs, planning the new garden. Big Man is whipping up smoked meat and baked goods. The only hitch in our get-a-long this week was Kattie Grace's gall bladder.
She has been sick to her stomach for a while, and it got so she couldn't eat anything without getting sick. Cupcake took her to see Dr. "Puddin," and he said it had to come out. Tuesday, girlfriend went under the knife and came out like a champ. Unlike some of her family, who we won't throw shade on in this blog (crazy granny) who limped around like she'd been gutted like a fish, Kattie Grace was up and around like the doc ordered. Fully recovered by Friday.
Side note: 15 year old girls are a hoot when they are under anesthesia.
To thank "Puddin," Big Man made him a chocolate cake, with his soon to be world famous cream cheese icing, as a thank you.

From scratch, no cake mix around The Acre

Kattie Grace has her last Post-Op Monday, so hopefully she will be back to normal by the start of school.
The first day of the year was this past week, and we stick to tradition with the first meal of the new year, as many do. Smoked brisket, black eye peas with chopped country ham, and collards. Good luck to us in the coming year. We got a new cast iron pot during Christmas, and we put that bad boy to good use with the black eye peas. Cupcake says it's her new favorite cast iron.

Breaking in the new pot

 We made use of leftover smoked chicken one night. Big Man whipped up a cast iron skillet full of chicken pot pie.

Putting our fresh eggs to use, Cupcake made a big batch of egg salad for her lunch this week.

We had a Star Wars connection, with the "Death Star" egg above. You can also see the makings of preacher cookies in the works. We love us some preacher cookies around here.
One of Cupcake's ideas with her herb garden. Drying the herbs was a messy job, especially since the mutt has been inside the house, nosing around in everything.

We found a lot of the herbs in the floor, but Mutt has no idea how they got there, so Cupcake took an old onion bag, and hangs the herbs now, out of nosy dog range.

We ended our week with chicken wings.
Happy New Year all!!
K&K