Sauce and Syrup

Another busy week around The Acre as we prepare for a hard winter. All signs are once again pointing toward a lot of snow, so we are preparing for the worst.
Something we've always wanted to do is make a straight from the garden spaghetti sauce. The stars aligned this year, and all the ingredients did well and were ready to use this week.
We picked fresh tomatoes, peppers, jalapeno peppers, onions and garlic. Then we used fresh basil, oregano and rosemary from the herb garden on the deck. This is our best sauce ever.

It made 14 quarts (3.5 gallons) which makes us well set for a while.
Our next winter prep was corn. This is the first year we have had enough corn to can. We usually get enough to eat on, so we were anxious to can our first batch.

Our Concord grapes came in this week, and we made one more batch of jelly. We give most of our jelly away, so somebody is going to make out. Or a whole bunch of people will, more than likely.

There was food too. We smoked our first half of the brisket from last week.

We had schoolhouse rolls with the meal.

And some chocolate pie for dessert.

And speaking of smoker meat, we have some 'on the hoof' hanging around the yard lately.

We had our first pumpkin meal Saturday morning. Big Man has perfected pumpkin pancakes, but we saw a recipe for homemade pumpkin syrup. We made a batch during breakfast prep, and used it while it was still warm. We won't bother to tell you it's better than anything you can buy in stores.

Sunday morning, we made "Crazy Grannie's" favorite breakfast. Eggs, sausage gravy, biscuits and fried apples.

After Sunday breakfast dishes were all squared away, Kattie Grace asked if she could bake a cake. She made it from start to finish all by herself, so we're quite proud of her.

The cake turned out great, it did not fall at all. She even dyed the frosting blue and iced the cake herself. Our camera batteries gave out on us before publishing time, so you'll have to take our word for it. It rocked.
A couple of random pictures to end the post this week.  The cows with wings learned they could fly this week.

And we caught a pretty sunset we wanted to share.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K