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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Dutchess and Dignitaries

This week "The Dutchess" wanted to try her hand at baking, and we had distinguished guests out to The Acre. It was a fairly eventful week.
We start off with the dignitary visit. "The Beamer" and "Rhulenbarb" made a trip across the mountain to see us, so Big Man smoked a brisket for the occasion. We also had two seasonal treats. First, we made a rhubarb pie for dessert. Second, we found a small batch of morel mushrooms the day before their visit. Regular followers may remember we are nuts for morel mushrooms.
Gold. Solid gold
We sliced them in to quarters and soaked them in salt water overnight.
Then we fried them up in a buttermilk/seasoned flour breading.
We probably should have taken a picture before we served it
And then we moved on to the main course.
The other big event in the kitchen this week, Kattie Grace found a recipe for a pizza pretzel and wanted to give it a try. She did very well.


We do not believe she was as excited about clean up as she was about dirty up
And it rained a few days this past week. When Big Man is stuck in the house he always finds something to do. This week: Pizza sauce.
We used five quarts of the tomatoes we put up last fall, and threw in a few secret ingredients here and there. Slow cooked it in our cast iron pot and then canned it in a water bath. This is how from scratch pizza is done right.
Another rain day project was laundry detergent. Somebody keeps using a shovel full of detergent when a tablespoon is all that's needed for a load. But as was pointed out to Big Man, it only costs a dollar or so per gallon to make, so get good with it.

Later in the week, we took a stroll around The Acre and took note of a few things we are proud of, first being our peach trees withstood the freeze and are bearing peaches.
The rhubarb is coming along better than we expected

This is one of our apple trees that we started from a seed. This is three years growth
And our ground cherries survived the hard freeze as well.
The grapes are beginning to run
While we were out, we took a days serving of scratch grains and tossed it out along our creek. Since we moved the Coop Deville to the corner of the woods, the birds have been spending most of their day to day in the woods. Big Man has been trying to get them to forage further down into the woods where the creek is. This would give the birds more cover from hawks, and a constant source of water. Because carrying water to the coop wasn't factored in when we set it so far from the house.
The birds have found the scratch, but they are not making it their routine just yet. It's a good thing Big Man has a lot of free time to train chickens. This will keep him busy this summer.
And speaking of keeping busy, next week is a big week. Leading off to next weeks update, we leave you with something Big Man never thought he would see. A Chevrolet in his driveway.
Friends don't let friends buy Chevrolets
You'll have to tune in next week to find out why this is.
We ended this week with wings.
K&K










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