Cold, gray, windy, with frozen precip on the way.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re kinda busy with keeping things that mustn’t freeze unfrozen, checking on the horses, checking on pipes, and (in my case) keeping hot food ready when we need it.\u00a0 Just came in from a check in the barn, scooping horse poop, putting out another flake of hay for each, and laughing at the silly beasts mock threatening each other (little rears, without any real attack…more a “wouldn’t you like to play?” move.\u00a0 If I had their muscle mass and a fur coat on, I wouldn’t be cold either!!\u00a0 They’re eating, drinking, peeing and pooping, and the poops I put in the tub for same were the right consistency, so all’s well on the equine front.<\/p>\n
Today’s soup is using up the last of the ground venison Rancherfriends gave me, but E- assures me they have more in their freezers and I can have more any time we can meet.\u00a0 She’s down with a bum knee.\u00a0 It’s the mix I came up with last year shortly before the Polar Vortex.\u00a0 Pork hocks, venison, and all the vegetables (we like) that I can stuff in.\u00a0 Carrot, celery, onion, garlic, tomato, green chilis, yellow corn kernels, my soup bean mix (Red Kidney, Little Red, Great Northern, Navy, Anasazi, Black, sometimes but not this time Pinto and Black-eyed Peas) soaked the night before, cut green beans, mushrooms, spinach.\u00a0 Sometimes we add others, but this time the last shopping trip was late and we didn’t.\u00a0 So no olives, Bell peppers, zucchini, big white radishes.\u00a0 They wouldn’t fit in the pot anyway.\u00a0 I’d have to switch to the 20 quart one.<\/p>\n
Today’s lunch was the same as we had last night for supper:\u00a0 a remnant of the most recent soup transformed into something vaguely Cajun with the addition of half a cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast cut into chunks, some frozen cooked shrimp (shelled and de-tailed), some freshly chopped celery, and some hot spices,\u00a0 with rice.\u00a0 Over a slice of bakery sourdough bread…hit the spot.\u00a0 The combination of smoked pork, chicken, venison, and shrimp is…amazing.\u00a0 I keep meaning to get a little jar of Cajun spice mix but two years of pandemic store avoidances have made me less willing to stare at a wall of spices at the big supermarket while the unmasked tread on my heels or crowd in beside me.<\/p>\n
We have at least two more days and nights of this, so I’ll probably be scarce here.\u00a0 Stay safe and healthy, in whatever season, weather, or other situation you find yourselves in.<\/p>\n
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