Cooking and Gardening

This week we're going to be processing lots of broilers, so today, we girls did some cooking prep so we'll have food pre-made ahead of time for the days we'll be processing. Today we mainly made bread and muffins, we planned to do more but we ran out of sugar, we'll be doing more cooking tomorrow. We also did some work in the garden, "debugging" our potato plants, weeding and putting compost around the corn. The recent rains have caused everything to burst into color and grow twice as high in the gardens and field's. We are loving the warm weather. Dad had Katie and I spreading manure around the corn. With our shovels we went back and forth from the compost pile to the garden. Gabe was "helping" by chopping at the compost pile with a hoe twice his size and Katie and I would pretend to pay him when we filled our shovels. He would hold out his cupped hand and we would pretend to give him money, (nothing really) and he would act like he was really holding it and carefully pour it into his pocket while making a clinking sound for effect. Gabe was also fascinated with the grubs that were dug out of the pile, we gave him one to hold in his hand and every time it moved he would scream, drop it on the ground and jump back a few paces. Then he would squat down, study it for a few seconds and then pick it back up with two fingers and repeat the whole process! I wish we had gotten some pictures of that! Here are some pictures of the bread baking anyways. -Morgan

Grinding the wheat








Adding the freshly ground wheat flour to the dough. (warm flour is so nice to bury your hands in!)

Getting ready to roll out the dough for cinnamon bread.

Hannah adding the brown sugar and butter filling. (yum!)

Rebecca rolling out her little bit of dough.

Katie and Rebecca made blueberry muffins.