Where Has This Week Gone?

 Every day I think about blogging and yet, somehow, I don't find the time to do it. The last time I blogged was Monday and here it is Friday night. Let's see if I can remember some of what I did this week . . nothing terribly interesting I'm sure.

Tuesday: Because of a prior commitment, we got together on Tuesday instead of Wednesday this week so I had fun stitching all day with her.

Wednesday: I was up before daylight. I've mentioned Vince likes Ezekiel bread. I make three loaves at a time for him; freeze two and he eats one, then defrosts a second and when he starts on the third one, he lets me know that it's time to think about making more. I knew Wednesday was the day I had to make it so my plan was to get started on that first thing but Vince wasn't up yet and I knew grinding the wheat and beans would wake him so I got everything else all measured and ready to go. I also needed to make sunflower seed butter and got everything out to make that, took the blender out to the sunroom and got that made. By that time Vince was up and I got the Ezekiel bread started. By the time the bread was done baking, we needed to run to town and fill up the car because we had a road trip on Thursday. 

We got home and I got started defrosting a freezer. Vince had brought all the ice chests in so I put things in there I was keeping, threw out some unidentifiable leftovers, pulled out a couple of things I need to cook soon and got them positioned in the freezer where I have to look at them every time I open the freezer door. I pulled out a big pork butt to smoke. By the time I got everything back in the freezer, I had two and a half empty shelves. That's great!

We did that, came home and heated up leftovers for dinner. Then I went out and planted two of the 4 x 8 beds in garlic, got that all mulched; cut back the rhubarb and got that mulched. By then, the sun was setting and I was happy to be done with my chores.

Thursday: A trip to Kansas City. I'm NOT a city girl and I do not like city traffic. I was glad to get there and get out of there. On the way home, we stopped by Kurzweil's in Harrisonville. They have a restaurant and that's where we decided to eat. We got one Reuben and one Short Rib Grilled Cheese Sandwich and split them. They were SO good (but we were also very hungry!). Vince got a roll of Black Pepper/Blue Cheese Summer Sausage. We also got several packages of brats - Caramelized Pear & Gorgonzola; Andouille, Italian Sausage, Applewurst and Jalapeno Peach. We have only tried the Summer Sausage and both of us are sure it's the best we've ever had. As much as I detest the traffic on the way to KC, I think we'll be going back to Kurzweil's . . soon.

From there we went to Koehn's Bakery, which is one of those places we used to visit when we lived in MO the first time.

Check out this cinnamon roll from there!

Not only is it HUGE but it's delicious. We have cut off several little pieces and eaten those. We'll finish it off tomorrow. I got a S'Mores donut that had a bit of chocolate on top with graham cracker crumbs on top of that and it had a homemade marshmallow cream in the middle. Oh, my goodness  . . that was even more delicious than the cinnamon roll. Vince got a couple of things and everything he had was good too. He now wants to move to Butler so we can go to the bakery more often. I told him fine but let's rent because if we go there often, we're going to die soon.  

From there we went to Stoplight Market, also in Butler. I loved that store when we used to go there often. I went in to get another Rada spatula. I love those spatulas and have gone from having four to having two and no one in this house seems to have any idea where the two missing spatulas could be so I bought another one. I've always wished they had a wider one and they did! So I got that one two. I think that's it but now that I know we'll be going up there more, I'll be prepared to buy other things I need from there.

Friday - I'm up to date on blog posts! This morning I cleaned most of the ginger, then got it sliced and in the freeze dryer. It only filled two trays so I peeled and sliced enough pears to fill the two remaining trays.

For dinner I pulled out the leftover butter chicken from the freezer, made a pot of rice and a salad and we had dinner! 

Next on the agenda - I had about 12 cups of blended up tomatoes from the freezer that didn't fit in the freeze dryer when I did the last batch of tomatoes so I was seriously considering tossing that out.. I didn't want to mess with it but then I decided to use that to make pizza sauce. I cooked it down and get 7 half pints of pizza sauce. Got that canned in the steam canner. 

It's 9:30 p.m. and I have to get the pork butt in the smoker around 11 p.m. Then . . it's straight to bed for me and tomorrow, all I plan to do is make a potato salad and open a jar of baked beans to go with the pulled pork. I hope to get some stitching time in tomorrow . . maybe over the weekend.