Mushrooms and Post Holes

This week at The Acre, it was all about mushrooms and digging holes. We spent every morning before Cupcake signed on to work, searching for morel mushrooms. We found a few early in the week after it rained a bit. Then Sunday, we found eight. We had different ends to means for our hunting efforts.
First, we fried the ones we found early in the week. They are a welcome addition to any meal.

The batch we found later in the week, we decided to try making a morel slurry, in an attempt to raise as many as we can eat. Because we can eat a truck load of them.

The directions say to blend four mushrooms with flour and wood chips, then add molasses and salt, and let the slurry work for two days. Then dilute the mixture in up to twenty buckets, and spread around wood piles and dark shady areas. We will be sure to update next week the results.
Moving on to hole digging.
If any of you read the last post, you know we decided to build our own fence around our garden. Digging the holes was the only thing slowing down the plans, but lucky for us, Pop's came through with his post hole digger on the tractor. Talk about a time and back saver.

After we got our holes measured off and marked, we got busy digging. Then the order from Wills Ridge arrived, and we got busy setting posts.

We got all the post set and in place on Saturday. Next week we will start putting the planks on, and construction of the gates.
And all this work, means good eating (shocking, right?)
One of Big Man's weak links in the kitchen is dinner rolls. He's tried several recipes and they turn out OK, but nothing to brag about. Well, this week all that changed. We found a recipe for "schoolhouse rolls" and the recipe calls for powdered milk. We had to try it.

The recipe said to roll the dough, then cut with a biscuit cutter, let rise and bake. We thought the original poster may have been smoking crack, but we followed the instructions. All we can say about these is "Holy crap on a cracker" they are good. The even better part is, we had extra ones that we froze. Talk about a quick dinner roll, thaw, rise, bake.

We will need a few more tries before they are share with people approved, but it sure is sweet work until then. Taste testing at it's finest. Throw in a seared steak, fried onions, and we got a fence building meal right there.

We ended the week as is our tradition.
K&K