February 9, 2013

beautiful sunny day....the East Coast got hammered with

a huge snow storm...up to 3 feet of snow.....we were at

1 yes One degree this morning....crazy cold but the sun makes up

for anything.....  :)

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Ross made breakfast.....hash browns.....made with our potatoes...the last from

our potato box.....we planted them on April 10, 2012 and picked

them on October 12, 2012...we leave them in the basement cellar...the

rest will be used as our seed potatoes for this year.... 

bell peppers, garlic, bacon, onions and pepper to taste....

eggs from the coop and ham from the hog



gotta LOVE a real fresh from the farm hardy breakfast !!!

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any sunny day during the winter means outside projects.....

first job.....clean out the chicken coop....

this is a YUCKY YUCKY job...but all part of the chicken

mamas having a clean, healthy environment to live and lay in.

here is the back part of the coop with some of the old straw gone and

some of the nasty rolled up and ready to be removed....

and now with fresh straw back in.....

Reggie the Rooster giving his girls a pep talk....

the front part of the coop....the feeding area....

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second job.......filling up the wood rack on the

back porch....everything is so much easier when the sun

is shining and their is no wind.

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third job....making dinner...normally friday night is Pizza night,

maybe we will change it to saturday night for 2013....

tried a new dough recipe....

Italian Pizza Dough : yields 2 pizzas

5 cups flour

2 Tbsp sugar

2 Tbsp Italian seasoning

1 tsp salt

4 1/2 tsp yeast

mix all of these ingredients together......add 2 cups warm water and 6Tbsp of olive oil together and pour into the dry ingredients......mix until it is moistened...don't over mix it....let it rest 10 minutes.

sprinkle corn meal on your pizza stones....cut the dough into 2.....roll them to extend over the pizza stone...

add cheese into the extra dough before you roll into a crust...roll the dough docker

over it to create holes in the dough....bake at 375 for 5 minutes.....add all your

favorite toppings and cook for an additional 20 - 25 minutes...

 we have found our new Pizza Crust recipe...it tasted Amazing!!!

Pleasant Dreams!!!