Snow Way?

We had our first real winter weather this week, like most everyone else did. The weather forecast was calling for the storm to go north of us, and we were only going to get flurries, maybe the ground would get covered. Cupcake gave Lawman a teardrop weather predictor for Christmas, and it kept saying "snow". Well, we woke up to about six inches of snow.
We've been preparing for snow since last April so we love to see it come when it comes.

While we were snowed in, nothing is better than comfort food. Lawman made a batch of clam chowder for dinner one night. Actually, it started out as a side dish to porkchop night, but it ended up being a meal in its self. When it all came together we started tasting it, and a taste turned into a spoon full, which turned in to we ate most of it. We dug in to it when Pop got here and ended up not taking any pictures before it was almost gone. We cut Pop out a pint and we  kept enough for lunch the next day. We stopped in town and bought more clams, so next week we promise to have a how to. Maybe. We'll see.
The next day, Lawman still felt the need to be in the kitchen, so he cut up a bag full of blood oranges and made Cupcake a batch of marmalade.

Fillet of blood orange

Fillet of orange peel

Eight jars should hold us

And it's an orange party in everyone's mouth

Lawman spent the last few years in the People's Republic fishing for perch. He got skilled in the art of fillet. We found it is easier to fillet the peel away from the icky white part of the orange peel. Some people boil it and scrape it, but it's so much faster to do it this way. All you need is a sharp knife, and we have a whole lot of that here at The Acre.
And just because we had snow, it didn't slow us down going old school on laundry. We still hang our sheets/bedspread and whatnots outside to dry.

Just before the snow came, we loaded up the little old man down the street with a truck load of wood, and he mentioned he had eaten all of his cake and jello we made for him, so we took the snowed in time to fix him another batch.

And the end of an era happened this weekend. We always end the blog with wings, but this week we ended the week with oysters. Deep fried, spicy, oysters.

K&K