A Little Rain

Over the past week, we got a little bit of rain here at The Acre. Eggheads reported just prior to this week that we were in a dry trend, we bet they can't say that anymore.

A little over ten inches of rain in one week, it's good for the well, but it sure was hard on roadways and homes.
There was a small break in the rain last Monday, so Big Man took to his power tools and used left over fence wood to whip up a make shift table. We've been gathering quite a few eggs over the past couple of weeks, and may have to start offering them for sale soon.

And speaking of eggs, the AG family hooked us up with an egg apron this week. It was put in to service as soon as we got it home. We made out on the deal, because we traded them a buttermilk pie, which Big Man managed to drop on the way to the local AG headquarters, resulting in only half a pie actually getting there. But like we said, it only had half the calories.

And speaking of pie.....

Chocolate pie

Buttermilk pie

Pumpkin bread, on the mix

We don't know why everyone doesn't use cast iron for baking

And we made a batch of tapioca pudding and a batch of home made caramel for apples.

There was a bit of left over cooking too. We made a pot roast the week before, and used our fresh blue potatoes. We took the leftover pot roast, added a can of our garden corn and tomatoes, and made a nights worth of veggie beef soup. The potatoes kept their color when they were roasted. We think it's kind of neat.

One of our last meals this week was pork chops roasted in cast iron. We cut one of the cabbage heads on the back deck, and made fried cabbage to go with them.

One of our simple pleasures is cabbage stalks. And when it's only been cut five minutes before eating, it don't get any better.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K