Daytona and Batman Villains

This week was speed week at Daytona. In a prior life, it was the holiest of weeks. Big Man always took speed week off from work, to start with it was the only week he could get off because he was a velvet ass rookie on a shift of grizzled veteran police. But later he picked up the NASCAR bug, thanks to Badd Dewd.
Badd Dewd was a Dale Earnhardt fan, and pestered Big Man to join in watching. Not knowing anything about NASCAR, Big Man asked who the polar opposite of Dale Earnhardt would be. BD said Dale Jarrett drove the Ford sponsored car, so Big Man became a DJ fan just to have someone to root against the black 3 car. This was around 1996, DJ wasn't hitting on much but he seemed like a genuine guy, and Big Man had the pleasure of meeting him, and most of his family over the years.
The point of this story is one of the traditions of speed weeks, Big Man planted his tomato seeds on the day of the Daytona 500. By planting time, the plants were just the right size for setting out. This tradition continues even though DJ is retired and NASCAR holds no place in Big Man's life any longer, except the seed part. But as far as the title this week, DJ once drove the "Bat Mobile" in a race, and Big Man just happens to have a collectible from that race.

And for the villains part of the title, we lead off with "The Penguin"
We have a guinea bird with a twisted leg, he walks like The Penguin on Gotham, so Cupcake dubbed him with his name. Penguin is the slowest of the bunch obviously, but for the most part he has always did his own thing and everybody leaves him alone. This past week it appears that the group started picking on Penguin, not letting him eat. So we solitary sequestered Penguin in the unused coop that we have dubbed "Arkham" until he gets his strength back and can fend for himself again.

The second villain for the week is Harley Quinn. Since we are on a seed planting kick this week, we decided to start a batch of marigolds inside, and this batch is named Harlequin.

See what we did there?

When it came to Sunday and tomato seeds, we paced ourselves and only started 72 plants. We figure we can always plant more in the coming weeks, and Cupcake always picks up a couple dozen plants when we come across them in town on trading days. We actually have a plant surprise for the next update, so stay tuned.

We had another batch of snow this past week.

And snow makes us want to cook and eat. So, on to the food part.
First off, something new this week. Big Man saw a recipe for raspberry cinnamon rolls. We have a bag of frozen raspberries from last spring, it was a perfect storm of idea and free time.

Yeast prep for the dough

Home made dough, rolled and ready

Cut the dough, sprinkle with brown sugar

Nailed it

We will add this one to the "maybe" list for a repeat. The raspberry filling was a bit runny, probably because it was frozen. We may try it again when we can pick a batch of fresh berries. We will advise.
Next up, another dinner of paprika chicken. Cupcake says it's her new favorite.

Then for Thor's Day meat offering, we had a mini Thanksgiving. Smoked turkey, mashed potatoes and cornbread stuffing. Stuffing had turkey guts chopped up in it, and Cupcake loved it.

A couple of projects that were not food related. We made another batch of deodorant.

And our rhubarb plants have started to outgrow the peat pots, so we transplanted them to our cow poop planters that we picked up last fall. We've been dying to use them since we bought them.

And we ended the week with wings.
K&K