Kraut and Krazy Outlaws

This week we poke fun at the branch of the family who choose not to be a part of our life, and celebrate the ones that do. It's our blog, we have that ability.
First, the celebration half of the family. Pops has been busy this week, and we start off the report with his doings. As our regular three or four followers know, we care take our family cemetery. We have a shed in the cemetery that has been needing repairs for a while now. This week, Pop and Cousin Tommy took the old door off the shed, and built a new door and rehung it. For a couple of guys with no proper wood working tools, it looks like a professional job.
"The Outlaw" has all kinds of wood working tools, but he's not an option.

Pop also had a row of potatoes that needed plowing out, so after a huge family breakfast we took care of that little project.

Two fifty pound bags full

And some really big ones in the mix

And our favorite poke at the bear happened this week too. "The Outlaw" always said the oil filter in Cupcake's truck was impossible to get to, and she would have to pay to have her oil changed because he wasn't about to try to do it. Big Man changes her oil twice a year, because the oil filter is right behind the front bumper. Big Man can unscrew it with his bare hands, it's so easy to reach.
We will continue to poke this bear, as long as Cupcake has her truck. Our blog, our rules.
We also changed Big Man's oil while we were at it.

Now on to the cabbage portion of this week. We tried a new recipe with the last head of our cabbage we grew on the deck. We sliced it up and roasted it in a cast iron skillet with some seasoning and oil. We really liked it.

Our sauerkraut has been fermenting for six weeks now, so we took it back upstairs and drained off the brine, then pressure cooked the cabbage in pint jars. The kraut is a bit salty, we may cut down on the salt next year, but we look forward to putting this on dogs and brats this winter.

We kept up the cooking. For our big meal of the week, we used a couple of jars of our home made chicken stock and a jar of carrots that we saved, and leftover smoked chicken, and make a big pot of chicken and dumplings for dinner.

We recently started getting enough eggs that we had leftovers stacking up. We put a couple of signs out along Huffville Road advertising eggs for sale. We also made a couple of buttermilk pies and pumpkin bread to put out with the eggs while our "shop" was open. If you find yourself out this way, stop in and load up on fresh baked goodies or free range brown eggs.

After the big haul of potatoes from Pop's house, we are going to start including shopping bags full of blue potatoes. We can only eat so many blue potatoes, but we are trying.

Our last couple of pictures are the changing trees in the area that we photographed. Sometimes you have to stop and take a moment to enjoy the beauty around you.

We ended the week with wings.
K&K