Posted on 11/27/2021 5:45:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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That is a GOOD DEAL on turkey!! Mine was $1.59 a pound regular (Feb/March time period) & I am fairly sure I got it for about half price - I think it was something like $16-18. By contrast, my SIL paid $2.99/lb a week ago & felt like that was a good deal with the current pricing. That price ‘may’ have been for a breast only, but we had my turkey & a smoked 12 pounder, so I think that price was for the 12 lb whole bird.
I wish I could start things early - no basement, no available window sill areas .... wish I had a small green house. Good luck with your early planting! :-)
I’m having a mouse problem in the greenhouse this season, so ‘operations’ are moving into the pantry grow rack to see if I can finish off some spinach and arugula. They seem to be leaving the lettuces alone.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire where we awoke to our first dusting of that “White Shit”! Glad the cover is on the hoop house. I still have to hang the two storm doors and install (When it comes in!) a support wheel for the large door.
I have three of our four half barrels of compost positioned in it along the centerline. I will be filling and moving more of the large pots we have into the hoop house for the winter. Over the winter, I will be spray painting jugs, filling them and positioning them in the hoop house for a thermal battery experiment. In reality, it is a large cold frame, for next spring.
Barb has most of the raised beds cleared and prepped for over wintering. Cover crops have been started. Garlic is planted in two large beds. Now it is time to decorate for Christmas.
Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
Ing---Pancake Batter 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1 large egg Cooking spray, for pan
Cinnamon Drizzle 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons light brown sugar 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons milk Cream Cheese Glaze 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar, 2 tb milk
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Steps...Pancake Batter Make the pancake batter: Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a larger bowl, combine the milk, butter and egg and whisk until fully combined. Add the dry ingredients and whisk together, but make sure not to over mix. Some lumps are fine!
Cinnamon Drizzle Make the cinnamon drizzle: In a separate bowl, combine the melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Place in a piping bag fitted with a small, round piping tip. Heat a frying pan over medium heat and spray with cooking spray. Dollop 2-3 tablespoons of batter onto the frying pan and smooth the surface with the spoon. Cook until the surface of the pancakes develop some bubbles, about 1-2 minutes. Pipe a swirl in the middle of each pancake with the cinnamon drizzle.
Flip and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes, or until the surface has browned. Continue with the rest of the batter, wiping down the pan between each batch - the cinnamon sugar can make the pan quite messy!
Cream Cheese Glaze Beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add the confectioner's sugar and milk and mix until combined. Drizzle over the pancakes and enjoy!
Some great ideas, including DIY items ..... I’m always looking for gifts I can make or very useful, small items to buy. I’m “done” for Christmas this year already (yay!!), but I can put some of these on a ‘to make’ list for next year.
Homesteader’s Gift Guide
https://melissaknorris.com/podcast/homesteader-gift-guide/
You can listen or read the transcript.
I hope everyone had a nice meal and good fellowship on Thanksgiving day. It was a low-key, but very nice day for us. Our kids are spread all over the place with jobs, kids, careers, in-laws, etc., all competing for the same time, so it was myself, Mrs. Augie, Pops, and Nephew. Nephew made a stroganhoff from ground venison and pork sausage that was out of this world. I got up early, picked a couple big turnips and half a bushel of collard greens. That stuff went straight from the garden to the summer kitchen for wash-n-chop, and then into the stew pot.
#2 Army Son is off at Fort Benning for his E7 school, so Mrs. Augie and #1 Marine Daughter bailed off to Fort Riley early yesterday to visit DiL and grands. That left me all alone to fend for myself, so I fended. Went to the sawmill first thing and picked up a trailer load of mill waste. I've got my woodpile sized up nicely. As it is now, there's enough to last until spring.
It was a muddy mess out in the garden, but I didn't let that put me off. I got the last of the tomato cages and the arbor panels taken down and moved out of the garden, and finished spreading the compost that I put on the garlic patch Wednesday afternoon. Cleaned up a few of my garden tools, and emptied the potting shed trash bin. Picked up a couple garden hoses and put them away for the winter. Carried all of the garlic bundles from the potting shed to the garage. Dug up all of Mrs. Augie's canna and elephant ear roots and put them in my workshop to dry for a few days before moving them to Pops' root cellar for the winter. Overall, it was a very productive day. It's been years since my garden has been this clean going into winter.
Tomorrow we'll have the same crowd that was here for Thanksgiving, along with #1 Marine Daughter, her BFF, #1 Son and DiL, and their two curtain climbers. I've got a nice fat turkey that's going to spend a few hours in the smoker this afternoon. Think I'll go ahead and make my giblet gravy and stuffing today, too. Hopefully, in between doing all of that I'll find some time to spend outdoors. It's really nice out there today.
Graffiti
The chief steward who took the photo says he saw red paint on the iceberg,
not knowing it was the same iceberg that sank Titanic the night before.
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GREAT pictures. Love that woodpile. Have a wonderful celebration and please thank your children for the their service.
For most of the year, yes. But for Thanksgiving we used a frozen store-bought pie. Too much stuff going on, and not enough stamina.
Great ideas! My Amanda (daughter of one of our best friends who recently passed) is going the Homesteader Route as much as she can, with my inspiration and guidance. Yay! She has moved to South Dakota (to be closer to her son who is stationed in ND, Air Force) and bought 3 acres with woods and a stream and is building one of those homes that looks like a big Pole Shed, but nicer. (They have a name; can’t remember it.)
Those are great items I can get her over time. Thanks!
I’ve been ordering seeds earlier than usual, too. Normally I do a seed inventory when the winter blahs start getting to me, and order seeds afterward so I don’t order too many duplicates. This year I started ordering without an inventory.
Yum! I just baked a Cinnamon Coffee Cake for my hunters to enjoy when they come back to the house later, today.
I wonder why Cinnamon isn’t touted as much as Pumpkin Spice is during this time of year?
Pumpkin Spice must have a better PR Firm, LOL!
Best Cinnamon to buy? Vietnamese. It’s. Incredible.
And isn’t it funny that Cinnamon is basically tree bark? LOL!
Also - if you want ‘flavored’ coffee and are too cheap to buy it, like me, a dusting of cinnamon right on the grounds before brewing is also wonderful. Spritzing vanilla extract on the coffee grounds is also good. A restaurant I used to love in the 80’s (The Ovens of Brittany) did that with their coffee before flavored coffee became a ‘thang.’
I tried Howden pumpkins and got some BIG ones.
We got our first snowfall that stayed last night.
The garden is finally put to bed for the winter.
Now it’s quilting time.
I’m a little jealous of your woodpile!
Great pictures! Love the farm fields - simply amazing. Could’ve lived without the big hornet after getting stung way too many times this summer. Jerks! Interesting factoid about the iceberg!
Thanks, Pete! I AM playing in my greenhouse today! :)
Thanks for the updates, Augie. Looking good! :)
“Now it’s quilting time.”
Make sure to join us on the ‘Monthly Fiber Arts Thread’ this Winter. New post will start December 1st.
Things will pick up a bit over there, now that a lot of us gardeners, who also craft, are done for the Winter. :)
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