Pie and Ice

This past week we had winter weather. It is January, so we expect some bad weather. We are still missing some heavy snow days, but we have plenty of winter left yet. This week, ice. It started as snow, but quickly changed to freezing rain. The ice hung around until Sunday afternoon, and didn't really stick to the roads, so it was more pretty than routine changing.

Cupcake snapped this one. She has an eye for ice

First order of business this week was blue cheese. We found a fresh pack of blue cheese at a local market, and Cupcake snatched it up for her lunch during the week. You may notice someone wrote "All Mine" across the top? Big Man respected her wishes.

All hers

And when it's icy outside, you want to bake. We do anyway. Pending the ice event, we made a batch of vegetable beef soup with leftovers from a beef roast we put in the crock pot earlier in the week. And what's better with soup, than scratch made rye bread? We don't know either. We baked the bread on roast night, and used the leftover bread on soup night, with melted butter and cheese. We don't waste food around The Acre.
Big Man found rye flour at a local market, and used our home made buttermilk to make a batch of rye bread.

Let the baking begin

Five minutes with the dough hook

Two hours to rest and raise

Fresh homemade butter, now that's tasty

Beef veggie soup. We got three quarts canned for later off this batch

And dessert, you have to have dessert.
Our five regular readers may remember, at the end of the summer/fall, we picked the last batch of rhubarb. Not wanting it to go to waste, we baked two strawberry/rhubarb pies, and froze them for the holidays. Well, holidays were dedicated to all things cake, so the pies had to wait until this week. We thawed one out, and placed it in the oven to warm it up on low heat. It was like eating a slice of summer. Fresh, pie crust wasn't soggy at all. We will so be doing this in the coming months.

Strawberry Rhubarb pie

Then on the fresh side of dessert, Cupcake found a recipe for a crock pot dish, kind of like cobbler. We used a jar of our blackberries from last spring, and it turned out great.

And, while we were clearing out frozen foods, we used a pack of Jake's deer backstrap for Sunday morning breakfast. Deer gravy, and deer eggs. That's how we roll in winter.

We still managed our weekly trip to Dude's Drive In, and this week, the car hop who takes the orders remembered our "usual" order. We are officially regulars.
We ended the week like we always do. Chicken wings.
K&K