Happy Birthday To Me

Big day here at The Acre Today Im 44. and just in time since I have just begun a new lifestyle. Last night I made my first batch of granola. The recipies I saw were way to complicated- I thought anyway - so I winged it. I used 6 Cups of rolled oats and 12 ounces of honey and a half cup of slivered almonds. I put in 3/4 cup of oil and baked at 250 for an hour. let it cool in the oven and BAM fab granola I added a couple handfulls of raisons and Ill jar it up today ..

My local store had pork shoulder on sale  heheeh ouch that means I have about 30 pounds of meat to cut up today for the grinder. Today while the yogurt is cooking I'll cube the meat and freeze it for a couple weeks. Freezing is a great way to kill trichinosis. The meat will get bagged into 5 pound packs. 5 pounds is a good amount to work with and be able to keep everything very cold while I make the sausage. Ill make breakfast sausages --Maple in sheep casing -- and then Ill make Hot Italian for brats and sauces. I have some beef to so I may make a sumer sausage and smoke that up-its pretty cold out though today so I might wait so the smoker is easier to keep at heat.

Today I also willl make a gallon of yougurt. Man that stuff will help take the pounds off !

The kraut is on day 6 now there has been no bloom and I think thats odd .. I will taste it today I think and see how its going.

I'm pretty disapointed in the pickled mushrooms .. The book I used didn't suggest I simmer the mushrooms prior to canning .. so my full packed jars are only half full today thankfully I only made two jars.  So if your a noob like me simmer the mushrooms prior to the jar .... grrrrrrrrr