Birds and Balls

This week was Thanksgiving, so we put on the dog in the food department. We always fix enough food to feed a heavy weapons platoon, even though we don't have a platoon to feed. Most of our food goes home with other people, and we are thankful to be blessed like that. It's a problem not a lot of people have these days.
So lets get to it.

Best smoked turkey to date, came out perfect (notice the thermometer RB?)

This is what home made mac n cheese looks like (crazy granny). We called this one "cheesehenge"

Deviled eggs are much better with our home made dill pickles in the mix.

Fruit cake

Buttermilk pie and apple cake

Apple cake topped with Big Man's soon to be world famous cream cheese frosting

There was still time during the day for selfie shenanigans, and photo bombing.

Fraidy Mutt stayed out of the way for the most part, because she has her new winter bed.

After everyone got their belly full, we boiled the bones of the turkey. We hate to waste anything around The Acre, and home made turkey broth is just a bonus all year long.

Three gallons of turkey broth, straight out of the canner

Cupcake made a few Mason jar decorations for the holiday....

After all the holiday stuff was over and done with, we started gearing up for Christmas. First order of business, sausage balls.

Our first batch of balls are done, and almost gone. Big Man has never been a fan of sausage balls, but the ones that Cupcake make are the exception to that rule. We understand "The Outlaw" is a huge fan of them as well. Guess he backed the wrong horse a few years ago?
We ended the week with wings.
K&K