Perfect Timing

Anyone who remembers Lawman from the People's Republic  will get the reference.

Cupcake was on another whirlwind adventure for her company this week, so Lawman stayed in close to the house. We got a lot of rain early in the week which caused our cucumbers to swell up faster than we expected. He was going to make another batch of lime pickles while Cupcake was away, but the cucumbers were too big for pickles. He saved a couple of them for cucumber water then fed the rest to the birds.
Second on his list to do was more sketti sauce. We are getting tomatoes at a steady pace.

When Cupcake got back, we drove to a local produce stand and bought some more straw for the slanty shanty and found they had peaches on sale. Last year we made a small batch of peach jelly, and it was at a premium all year, only being opened for special occasions. So when we found these, we bought a half bushel and juiced them for jelly.

 We started on the juice late Saturday and had to bottle it and keep it overnight until Sunday morning. This made one gallon of pure juice.

Sunday Morning after breakfast, we made four batches of jelly. Twenty seven jelly jars and a pint jar we used for leftover jelly to eat on.

And at the same time we were making jelly, we picked a new batch of cucumbers which were just the right size for pickles. We had to break out "ol #5" once again. More lime pickles are in the tube for next week.

On a couple of food related notes, before Cupcake left Lawman made a scratch batch of dinner rolls. This recipe uses cottage cheese and pineapple juice in the mix. It changed our lives.

We switched our chicken wing oil this week from peanut oil to lard. The Interwebs say it's a better taste for the wings, we will report on our findings next week. We also used lard in the Sunday morning biscuits, going "old school."

We end the week with wings. And ducks, because ducks are just stinking cute.

K&K