Ya Got Meat

 That's what Alvin York's younger brother says when Alvin kills a turkey at a shooting match during the movie "Sargent York" and Lawman says it every time he kills a deer. Or a turkey. This time it happens to be deer. But before we get to the deer, we start off with one of our projects from a few weeks ago. Vinegar.

Cupcake put on a batch of home made apple cider vinegar when we were doing the apple pie filling a few weeks ago. This week we cracked a jar open to enjoy with a meal.

And we did a new project this week as well, pear honey. The bears were nice enough to leave us a couple dozen pears on our tree out front, so we picked them and pondered what to do with them. We don't have room for a single jar of jelly left in the jelly cabinet, so Cupcake found a recipe for pear honey. We diced the pears up, added some sugar and pineapple juice, then slow cooked the batch all day until it reduced down to the consistency of honey. It's pretty close to the taste of honey as well.

We made another round of dinner rolls this week. We like them and use the leftover rolls for treats for the DT's. We're convinced they would take hostages if they didn't get a roll before bed.

Another acorn egg yolk

We had fried oysters with the dinner rolls. And as tradition holds, we tell the story of how "The Outlaw" would make fried oysters when Cupcake was a wee lass. His were nasty, Lawmans rock.

From here on out, there may be pictures of deer in less than Disney conditions. Don't read past if harvesting meat ain't your thing. You've been warned.

Lawman took to the trees again this week, and as luck would have it, a first year doe happened by. Cupcake has been wanting a couple of deer roasts to slow cook, and this little gal has just the hams for it. So our plan is to leave the legs whole and use them for a crockpot meal sometime down the road. Cupcake rolls up her sleeves and dives right in to the cleaning and skinning process, so from recovered deer to in the cooler was about an hour of work for us. We are a well oiled machine. 

And during the process of cleaning the deer, Cupcake made a request.

"For God's sake, don't mess up that backstrap"

She loves her some deer gravy on Sunday mornings.

And we are such a well oiled machine that we didn't get a drop of blood on our clothes this time. But to look at the wagon we use to dump guts and whatnot, you'd think it was a messy affair.

The weather is going to heat up this coming week, so we may have to wait a bit before we get another one, but six is out target for the year. We want our veggies back.

We ended the week with tenderloin gravy, and naps.

K&K