More Jelly More Gem Corn

We were mostly garden oriented this week. The weather was calling for rain every day and we wanted to get it all tilled up and weeded before it started raining. To start things off, we picked another gallon of blackheart cherries and made one more batch of jelly.

We did manage to get it all done and we planted another row of beets and corn. We have eaten or given away almost all of our pickled beets so we will be needing a lot of beets to fill the shelves back up.

Early beets

Early corn

Gem corn seeds for planting

Future pickles

Future salsa/skettie sauce/soup/chili/pizza sauce

Future Jam

Current obsession

Red raspberries are almost here

And speaking of blueberries, after our first picking from the small ones a couple of weeks ago, our more mature bushes are starting to come in. We pick a small cup full every day to keep the squirrels from stealing them. This Saturday we put a cup to use in our pancakes.

Fresh from the bush to the batter? Yes please.
On the food related note, we wanted to show off our day to day breakfast. Cupcake goes to work early while Lawman starts his day by whipping up scratch made buttermilk biscuits and bacon. Cupcake takes a break and we sit down to a good breakfast.

Then Cupcake goes back to keeping the big bucks flowing to keep Lawman in the lifestyle he's grown accustomed to. Lawman goes on to do the four or five loads of laundry, garden work and prep for a five star style dinner.
Like we had on Thor's red meat offering day. We did "Surf and Turf". It was special because Lawman fixed scallops. Cupcake said "the outlaw" made her scallops one time and she thought they were disgusting. After she tried one of Lawman's scallops, we agreed that Steve just don't know how to cook. They were a big hit, and we got to use up the leftover shrimp from the boil in a shrimp cocktail.

The "surf" part was a huge hit

Cupcake's favorite greens, fried kale

When it did start raining this week, Lawman got caught up on some of his long term prep work by making two pounds of homemade butter.

It goes really well on breakfast biscuits, or scratch made dinner rolls.

We ended the week by going to see the new "Wonder Woman" movie and then returning home for wings.
K&K