We Beat Our Meat

This title is exclusively for Richard Beamer, who seems to read the blog only if the title can be taken dirty.  Cupcake is the mastermind behind the title, so please refer all questions and comments her way.

But we did beat our meat this week. We found a whole brisket for under $35 dollars, so we prepped it for a date with the smoker next week.
In other food related items to report, we made more pie. Two at a time. As we said last week, Brother Kevin came out and ran some pipe for a sink, so we paid up with pie.

We had to make one for ourselves

We picked a fresh batch of collard greens, and slow cooked them for dinner. With a slice of brisket for flavor.

And since everything is better in cast iron, we bake our dinner rolls in it now.

We went "old school" country dinner one night, and had simple BLT's, with lettuce we picked from our planter boxes, and fresh from the vine tomatoes. If only there were feral hogs around The Acre, we'd have fresh kill bacon. Maybe someday?

Of course Cupcake needed some fried squash and fried green tomatoes.
Cupcake requested grits for breakfast one morning, and if we learned anything from "My Cousin Vinnie", no self respecting southerner eats instant grits.

We picked another basket of tomatoes from the garden, and canned them up within an hour of picking them. That will be some fresh eating when we're snowed in this winter.

We mentioned a couple of weeks ago, that "Team Flash" started laying for us. We get a couple eggs a day from the new girls, and the eggs are about half the size of a regular egg. Big Man has been using the TF eggs to make pickled eggs. We wait until we have a dozen, then make a quart of eggs. It takes at least a week for the pickle and vinegar to soak in the eggs, so a jar a week will keep a steady supply.

The project of the week was jelly. The foxgrapes came in this week, but we only picked one basket full. The last time they came in, we picked all we could get our hands on. We made jelly, wine, more jelly. We still have the wine, but we did eat all the jelly. Now we have more jelly.

Odds and ends for this week. We have broom corn

It has been coming up all over the place, so we guess the birds ate it last year, pooped the seeds out and here we go. If we could just teach them to poop in rows.
And speaking of birds, Big Man has trained them to come running when he puts out feed.

We set the guinea birds free to roam this week. They are still the most stupid birds on the planet. Big Man calls them "cows with wings". We're convinced they would starve to death, standing in a pile of feed.

But they didn't fly away when we let them out, and they went up in the hen house the first night along with the rest of the flock, so we'll call it a wash.
Our giant sunflowers are almost all bloomed.

And we got a picture of mother nature's tease. We've had thunderstorms blow all around us, but not a drop of rain did we get.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K