White Christmas

 We know everyone got snow this Christmas, so we took pictures to share with everyone who does not have windows in their houses.

The Dudley Twins were up early Christmas morning. When we let them out to do their bidness, they were very excited. It's lasted all weekend.

The ponds froze over, so they have been ice skating as well. We didn't take the camera with us, trust us, it's funny to watch.

Later Christmas morning, the DT's got in the spirit and even helped play Santa with handing out the presents.

We were thinking "How could we become even bigger coffee snobs?" and hit on the idea of roasting our own beans.

Lawman spent a little time down Central America way in his youth, and coffee from Honduras has always been a thing for him. Now we can order green coffee beans from there and roast them as dark as we want to.

Plus, it's only like $4 per pound. And we love a bargain

We had the usual feast with our fresh roasted coffee.

Scratch made cornbread and then cornbread stuffing

And a punch bowl full of punch, even though it was only "The Boy" drinking it.

Cupcake's world famous corn pudding

Cupcake's world famous half eggs.

A couple of new things this year.

The boy named this one "Dog shit brownies" but it's really called Peppermint Oreo brownies

And a baked Brie pastry with roasted pecans

Old standards, like sugar cookies and Oreo balls

And Cupcake's new all time favorite for the holidays, fried oysters. Just like "The Outlaw" used to make, only these are good to eat (the joke here being, for any outside the family types, he didn't know how to cook oysters)

We ended the week with wings. And several naps.

K&K

No Cuts, No Butts, Dos Coconuts

 This week was prep work for Christmas. Our lead off thing this week is a blast from both of our pasts. Apparently, both of our grandmothers would make a coconut cake for Christmas. When Lawman was a young lad, he would help out with prepping fresh coconuts. Draining, baking, grating. We saw some fresh coconuts and decided it was time to get old school. 

We see why our grandmothers would limit the size of a slice of the cake. It took all day to bake.

After we got them baked and cracked, we peeled the skin off and had fresh coconut meat. We used the food processor to grate it. Where was this thing 50 years ago?

We baked the cake from scratch, using our new arrived eggs from the slacker birds.

Cupcake was gifted a bottle of home made vanilla, so we used it for the cake and custard.

We used the whole bottle, so we refilled it and hope it's ready for next holiday season.

The frosting was sugar/cream cheese mix, and we used the rest of the shredded coconut to sprinkle on it.

And paying homage to Cupcake's grandmother, a fresh batch of boiled custard with the rest of our fresh eggs.

It's a shame "The Outlaw" is bat shit crazy, apparently this is his favorite?

Christmas snacking, we have two kinds of snack mix. Chex and Golden Grahams.

A new item this week. Pumpkin donuts.

"The Boy's" birthday was also this week. He asked for home made oatmeal cakes and a fresh pizza. 

It wouldn't be Christmas without Cupcake's home made cheese ball. She knocked this one out of the park.

We ended the week with wings. And coconut cake with boiled custard. And a nap.

K&K