Reunion Week Again

This week snuck up on us. We did our usual stuff, had a boil for dinner, Thor's red meat day offerings and usual chicken drama. The picture portion of this weeks update is mostly reunion stuff. Every year we try to think of new things to take, some are hits, some are misses. We are narrowing down what the people want, and this year we decided what the people want is buttermilk pie. We experimented this week with three pies, buttermilk, strawberry rhubarb and chocolate. The only pie that didn't come home with us was buttermilk. Next year we will be the buttermilk pie people.
We start the pictures with strawberry rhubarb. We have quite the rhubarb patch this year and we picked a handful Saturday. We diced it up with just enough strawberries from the garden to make a pie.

Cupcake did the chopping

Fresh from the garden

Adding the sugar/flour mix

Egg white wash

Then we made a chocolate pie. And it's not any of the "crazy granny" jello from a box chocolate pie either, this is from scratch all the way.

And then the big hit, buttermilk pie.

The reunion is always a big time, lots of great food and everyone leaves with a full belly. Unlike Cupcake's family reunions, there are no fistfights and the arrival of police does not signal the end of the reunion.

Our cousins Bill and Francis, Bill Jr and Betty stopped by the house on their way home, we loaded them up with a pie of their very own, some pickles and soap. We always look forward to a visit from our family from the big city.
Other than the fresh rhubarb we picked this week, we did pick a mess of collards from the garden and had them on Thor's day.

And we're trying a new thing with our Thor's day red meat offerings. We spotted a whole sirloin at the local Wade's store and it was under thirty dollars. We bought said sirloin, and brought it home. Big Man sliced it up into eight steaks, then we prepped it up with the baking soda and garlic powder, packaged them up and have them in the fridge. We figure we saved around fifty dollars by doing the steaks this way. We look forward to reporting on how they turn out.

We still had our belly full after the reunion, so we skipped wings this week. Chickens breathe a sigh of relief.
K&K