Who You Calling Turkey, Pig?

We had a meat kind of week around The Acre. Big Man smoked one of Pop's turkeys, and Cupcake seared a pork loin in our new cast iron pot, then slow cooked it. We eat pretty well around here, and when it's below zero, there's not much else to do.
First off, turkey. Pop and brother Kevin have been going to the shooting matches pretty regular, and Pop has won a couple of turkeys and at least one ham. He gave us one of the turkeys this past week, and Big Man went to work putting some maple smoke all up in it.

It actually turned out better than the turkey Big Man fried for Thanksgiving, so there's that. With the leftover meat, we picked it then made a big batch of turkey salad for Cupcake's work lunch the coming week.

We use a whole jar of them yellow pickles, because we have 113 jars downstairs

Cupcake loves her some blue cheese dressing, so it goes in to the mix for a little kick.
Then we move on to the pig part. Cupcake found a pork loin on sale, and wanted to slow cook it in the new cast iron pot from Christmas, so we did. After we seared the loin, Big Man put in on to slow cook in the oven at 225, and it was ready by the time Cupcake got home from work.

We added carrots, onions, potatoes that we canned. It was good for a couple of meals this week. And what's meat and potatoes without bread?  Big Man found a recipe for the bread that a food franchise serves with it's meals, it must be "down under" bread, but it was pretty simple to make, and it turned out just like the restaurant serves. Cupcake says it's in the rotation full time now.

No fancy store bought mix for us, we do it from scratch

Add a fresh batch of homemade butter, and you're ready to slap ya crazy granny

Big Man still needs to work on shaping the little loafs for a more accurate look, but the taste can't be beat.
Then, there is dessert. We have been stuck on chocolate cake here lately, but a whole cake is not a very good idea, because we hate to waste food, so we try awful hard to eat the whole thing before ti dries out. So, Big Man cut the recipe in half this week, and we made a small cake that was more diet friendly.
The trick is how do you half an egg?  The original recipe calls for three eggs. Lucky for us, we have a backyard full of chickens, and every now and again when our girls get spooked, or they just get a wild shell up their butts, we get a yolk free egg, as you can see.

Aaaaaannnnnd our half egg problem is no more. You just can't beat country living.

No cake mix either, all from scratch

Choco cake

Cupcake also whipped up a batch of peanut butter bars. They are made like preacher cookies, only we used honey and peanut butter, mixed over steel cut oats. They soaked up over night, and were a tasty treat the next morning.

And it appears the blog camera got hacked over the weekend, because we found a "hose yanker" on the roll of pictures when we set down to do the update.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K