Cow Pies, and Buttermilk Too

This week, we struck gold. Well, what we consider gold anyway. We seem to get excited over small things everyone else overlooks, but that's OK.
We were at a local feed store buying food for our egg ladies, when we found planting pots made out of 100% cow manure. The list price was $3.99 for a dozen pots, and we decided to buy a batch for next years garden. When we checked out, the pots rang up for one dollar. We asked if that was correct and it was confirmed, so we went back and bought the entire shelf full. We will be some tomato starting people next year. And cabbage too, probably.

And for the buttermilk pie portion of our title......Big Man found a recipe on one of the hippie pages he belongs to on Facebook and wanted to try it. We've been wearing out some chocolate pie the past week, so we tried this one to mix things up a little.

We still make our own pie crust

The recipe called for a deep dish pie plate, but it didn't make as big a pie as we thought. Next round will be in a regular pie pan, we think.
We started out sauerkraut trial run this week. We chopped up three heads of fresh cabbage from the garden, and put it in our crock to ferment. It had just started smelling tangy by Saturday.

On other garden related notes, we picked another round of beans and tomatoes this week. We canned them up.

We made another round of dill pickles. As the cucumbers come in, we get them straight into a jar.

Food posts this week include cast iron cooking. If you can imagine that?

Deer meat meatloaf

Fried steak and fried squash

And a couple of projects to mention. We made another gallon of laundry detergent. We don't want to cast any shade on anyone in particular, but somebody uses an awful lot of laundry detergent when she does laundry. A tablespoon looks more like a quarter cup, apparently.

Another batch of orange marmalade is in the cupboard

Odds and ends to round out this week. "Team Flash" started laying eggs for us. So there is six more eggs a day we are looking forward to.

They started laying right after we saw a rainbow that ended right behind the hen house. Coincidence?

Our first giant sunflower bloomed Saturday afternoon. The top rail on our garden fence is over six feet tall, so you figure they are over seven feet tall now?

And we started getting our second round of strawberries from the fruit garden. Not a lot yet, but we have a bunch of blooms and green ones on the vines. We are crossing our fingers.

Last item, our red corn started coming in. We've had them for dinner one night so far, and will probably have corn all week this coming week.

To include Sunday wings.
K&K