Ritual Sacrifice

 We learned from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" that if you kill an animal and then eat it while remembering a past event, it's a ritual sacrifice. Thanksgiving is a ritual sacrifice. With pie.

Anywho, we ate a dead bird to commemorate the first Thanksgiving, maybe you did too? We don't know.

We started out by giving the ol girl a good rubdown with 'Lawman' spices and flavored rubs.

Then we smoked her low and slow 

We started a couple of days early. Lawman whipped up two pies at once. Pumpkin spice and pecan. He started out with scratch made buttermilk pie crusts. Some day we will tell future generations making pie crusts used to be hard.

Then it was on to the pie fillings

We also make scratch made stuffing, which means we have to make the cornbread two days in advance so it can get a little stale before we use it. And none of that 'Crazy Granny' from a box BS, either.

The next part of the stuffing is the turkey guts. We boil the neck and gizzards/heart and dice them up to put in the stuffing mix.

Then the big day rolled around, and we worked together in the kitchen like a couple of small gears inside a well oiled machine.

Stuffing

Cupcake's soon to be world famous corn pudding, with fresh from the garden corn that we canned earlier in the year.

Cupcake made fresh sweet potato casserole this year, in the crockpot. It's our new favorite.

As 'Denephew' would say, "half eggs"

And even though we were steady working, there was still time for some shenannigans 

Cupcake then made her famous blueberry jello 

Mac and cheese. And not the 'Crazy Granny' recipe of Stoffers with dog cheese layered on top, this is grate the cheese, boil the noodles and pour on the cream Mac and cheese.

Lawman is responsible for gravy, mashed potatoes and dinner rolls.

And Cookie's favorite, home made cranberry sauce.

We're just poking fun. She likes that sugar jelly in a can crap, because according to "Bob's Burgers" 

'her heart is empty and her soul is dead.'

The Boy had to work, and the girl/boy in law had three dinners to attend, so we did our thing then slept it off for a couple of days. We're still working on leftovers. Maybe you are too? We don't know.

Speaking of leftovers, we used the turkey bones and leftover parts of carrots, celery and onions to slow cook broth. We let it slow simmer for a couple of days, then we canned it up.

Sixteen quarts. That's four gallons for our math impared followers. We're excited to have a fresh batch.

We ended the week with a couple of naps and the big Floyd Christmas parade, which will be in next weeks update.

K&K

This is Bullshit

 That was Augustus' opinion on reindeer antlers for the upcoming holiday season.

Willow was equally excited with hers

Lawman has been saying for a while now that the first cold rainy day that comes along, he was going to make a batch of clove soap. That day came this week.

He actually made two batches, so we're 40 bars up for the winter. 

And with the holidays fast approaching, we started gearing up for the cooking. First off, Lawman found a new spiced pumpkin pie he wanted to try, so he made it early to see if it's worthy of the pending ritual sacrifice day. It was.

We started off with scratch made pie crust. None of that Crazy Granny store bought frozen crust nonsense. 

Then Lawman broke out his new toy, a pie crust bag. It was advertised to make perfect pie crust, and it did not disappoint. 

We did use store bought pumpkin mix, just in case the recipe was a dud, we didn't want to waste one of our own jars of pumpkin.

We will be fixing this one for the big day.

After about three tons of chicken feed and every predator known to man feasting on our birds this year, we managed to get our first egg. It was only the size of a guinea egg, but it still counts.

We're guessing it was just one bird, because we got one egg, every other day. That's typical for young birds to go every other day. We look forward to having fresh eggs again. Lawman saved up this weeks eggs and had enough for our first batch of boiled custard. Cupcake was very excited.

It's one of "The Outlaw's" favorite holiday things. Shame he's batshit crazy or he'd be up to his elbows in boiled custard and fried oysters. But, we're sure 'the good daughter' makes both for him.

With the coming holidays we decided to give a few mixed drinks a try. Cupcake made a cranberry whisky sour that was really good.

Then Lawman followed The Alphageek's recipe for a Manhattan. He used rye and bourbon. We liked the bourbon a little better of the two.

And we broke in to the homemade peppermint we made last Christmas with leftover candy canes. 

If dead chicken killers offends you, stop here. You've been warned.

Lawman has got this predator killing down to a science. We got pictures of another gray fox messing around the coop at night, so he prepped his sniper nest once again. Thirty minutes later, another tail and skull added to our collection.

We ended the week with deer meat lasagna, and a couple of naps.

K&K

Supporting Deadpool

 Some of you may be aware we have gotten interested in Wrexham's football team. We watched the "Welcome to Wrexham" on the Hulu and joined the legion of American fans. We are usually an anti-sports family, so supporting a team is a foriegn concept for us. Social convention seems to call for buying team related items, so that's what we did this week. We plan on joining Mint Mobile when our current contracts run out.

One of the shows we enjoy is the Yellowstone series, and we had to pick this up when we saw it this week.

With the leather hot handle gizmo. Yes please.

Not much else went on this week. We hunted down a smelly washing machine source and cleaned it up.

We baked the DT's a batch of dinner rolls for nite-nite treats

We fried up another fresh tenderloin for Sunday breakfast.

We caught one of our phesants thinking it's the king shit of turdville this week. She's living her best life.

Cupcake started decorating for Santa, then we fried up some chicken wings and rounded out the weekend with a couple of naps.

K&K