We know it's not technically spring yet, but we were looking forward to it. Then we got another dose of "Aww hell no!" from mother nature this week. We thumbed our nose at her anyway, and put on our first batch of eggs in the incubator. We hope to start rolling out chicks in three weeks.
While we were snowed in again, we had a two meat smoke day. Big Man has been slipping on the smoking meat front, so we did a batch of ribs and brisket. Big Man started a brisket for St. Pattie's Day, so first order of business was tenderizing and butter milk soaking.
Then we cut off the short piece and gave it a rub down with secret spices until we were ready to smoke it.
And we did the same with the ribs. We made a mustard based rub, then soaked the ribs in it until cook day. The bone fell out of the meat.
We sliced the brisket up, and kept it for eggs and collard flavoring and whatnot. We had about a half rack of rib meat left over as well, so we froze that for beans, or whatever else we can think of.
And when you have two meat Thor's Day, you need some fried cabbage. Cupcake pulled out the stops on this batch.
And Cupcake made a request for another batch of orange marmalade. Big Man sure does like making her smile, so orange marmalade she got.
Then for a new item this week, Jake asked for a peanut butter pin wheel kinda thing. We went by the recipe for the first round, next time we will make this our own way, because it's how we roll.
Then Cupcake made fried apple fritters for grown up dessert one night. With Big Man's from scratch pie crust, of course.
Last item this week was spaghetti sauce. We were down to only a couple jars of our sauce, so one snowed in day we made a batch of our sauce. It's not like we didn't have 96 jars of tomatoes in the basement to use.
We ended like we always do. Chickens beware.
K&K
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