Preachers, Pi and Peaches

This week we had national Pi day, and everyone on the "Faceplace" were making a ta-do over it, so we bowed to public pressure and baked up one of our frozen blackheart cherry pies. We ate pretty well, since it was St. Patrick's day we did a brisket, and we had our from South America cacau powder delivered, so there was some chocolate items this week. Let's get to it.
To start, we had an unseasonably warm week. This lead to most of the existing fruit trees putting out blooms. We are really excited about that, because it's been five years since we planted the first fruit trees, and this should be the first producing year. Plus it's awful pretty.

Lotta cherry blooms

Cherry tree

Peach blossoms

We had pie, on National Pi day.

Then we made a chocolate cake. German chocolate cake.

With our new coca powder.

Then Cupcake made her world famous (and "Outlaw" favorite) preacher cookies

Then we have St. Patrick's day. While all the world makes corned beef and cabbage, we smoke brisket. We have cabbage too, but we bet ours is better.

The smoker was working just right this week. You know it's working right when you can't see the smoke.

We wish we knew someone who knew how to make cologne. If we could patent "smoking brisket" in a bottle, we would have Bill Gates formatting our flash drives for us.
Our one non food related update is toothpaste. We made a fresh batch of toothpaste, and added a little bit of DE earth for grit. All natural, it's how we roll.

Saturday we went to town to do some trading, and we found half priced grape vines at one of our favorite spots. So we bought two more grape vines, and we're going to plant them to run along the garden fence. Then we bought two more peach trees and two more plum trees. We will plant all these in the coming week. Probably potatoes as well, since "Good Friday" comes this week, and lore calls for potato planting.
Wee ended the week with wings.
K&K