Cupcake's Dance

Cupcake had great success with her "snow dance" this week. Leading up to the weekend, every day looked and smelled like snow. The forecast was for less than an inch to fall Friday night into Saturday morning, sowe did not make our usual preparations for being snowed in. Friday afternoon as we drove into town, it started sticking to the roads. We decided to grab dinner to go and head back across the mountain just in case. By the time we got to Pilot Mountain, people had gotten stupid. Some just stopped in the middle of the road and gave up.
We woke up to about nine inches at The Acre, so Lawman broke out the new toy. We're not sure why we didn't invest in a snow blower sooner.

Let it snow

"I'm ready for spring"

We have a few food related pictures to share this week. Starting off, New Year's day. Folklore says health and wealth all year if you have blackeye peas and collards for your first dinner of the year. Who are we to argue with mountain folklore? We still have collards in the garden, but this may be the last meal we get from them. Still, fresh from the garden is tough to beat the first day of January.

Fresh collards and smoked brisket for flavor

It's not just a band

New Year's done right

Cupcake stepped up with a couple of recipes this week. First, she made stuffed peppers for the first time in quite a while. These were well worth the wait.

Then she found a recipe for "cloud bread" which contains no carbs. We are not the "new year, new us" type of people, but it probably wouldn't hurt us to try eating a little healthier after the cookies, cakes and boiled custard we put away recently.

And after saying that, we decided that Saturday was going to be our eat whatever we wanted day, since our trip to Dude's Drive In happens every Saturday. We didn't try to get to town this weekend because of poor drivers, so we stayed in and Lawman used a quart of our canned white peaches to make Cupcake's favorite. Peach cobbler.

And after a week of cloud bread, we splurged and made a loaf of the real thing for Saturday night dinner.

Then we got back to ending the week with wings.
K&K