On Duty

I cook when I'm on duty.

Elk sausage, morel, wild rice, smoked provolone popovers!

 

 

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Want the Recipe??

Here goes then - how to make delicious lamb meatballs.

1 pound ground lamb, put in a bowl.  Take your cold press juicer and juice, handful of fresh cilantro, 4 cloves of garlic, 1 potato, 2 carrots.  Add juice and pulp to burger.  Add 1/2 cup gluten free bread crumbs, 1 egg, and 1/2 c chicken broth.  Mix, form into small meatballs using small ice cream scoop.  Cook in pan with a bit of olive oil.

Put a cup of fresh spinach in the bottom of a bowl.  Microwave for 30 seconds.  Add meatballs, cover with sauce, top with shaved parmesan. 

It was certainly 2016 finest dinner, thus far!  Enjoy your Sunday!

Wyoming winter twirly bird...or whatever they are called!

Below, Hoback Junction looking south, yesterday as the storm cleared. 

Lamb Meatballs!

Need I say more? Delicious, Devine, lambtabulous!

 

 

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Big Snow!

More later - I have to go snowblowing/shoveling!!

Note the woodpecker.

Monday Images

Thank you ALL for your amusing comments regarding our infestation.  I have learned these critters prefer dogs (but I am still itchy!).  Their life span is 21 days; the battle will last for 40!!!

Here are some pictures I captured through my day.  Enjoy. 

Monday morning hoar frost.

 Nice afternoon ski!

Field of dreams. Field of snow.   Below, view through the trees.

Good & Bad

There have been some good things and bad things happening around here.  I like to start out with the bad; makes the good things even better.  This morning I was giving Sally a nice scratch around the ears and discovered LICE!!  AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! 

Okay, I can do snakes and I can do spiders, but ticks, fleas and lice CREEP ME OUT!  We made an emergency trip to town and found good supplies at Smiths, of all places!  All dogs got a bath today with the special soap.  Mike got a small horse trough, we added 10-15 gallons of hot water (warm by the time the bath happened), convinced the dogs they had to get a bath and they got one!  Some Front Line drops to follow and lots of vacuuming, laundering, and itching.......!!  AAAAAHHHHHH!  Make them go away!!!

Now for the good things!  Check out this beautiful dinner we had the other night.  I am almost certain that when I round up my favorite 10 kitchen things, a rotisserie will be one of them.  Three pheasant breasts, wrapped in bacon (of course), on the grill going round and round for 45 minutes.  I marinated them in wine, etc first.  Turned out great!

And here is my little Honda.  It is for sale.  I think most of you are just too far away to take advantage of all the life left in this great car!  Hope to get 'er sold this week.  Once it is sold, a picture of the new car is sure to come.

Have a great week!

More Racing Pictures

Those of you who know me well, have heard how frustrated I was with the little Lumix camera I bought last summer pre-packtrip.  Happily, I have figured out how to use the thing - it was operator error all along!  Here are some more pictures from the Cutter Races.  Oh, and coming soon, a picture or two of the new Honda CRV Mike and I got during our journey to and from Salt Lake City.  For sale, 2004 Honda CRV, used but running like brand new!! 

Clara runs the kids' foot race!

What a view!

The day's winning team!

The winner driver, her daughter and a red-coated friend.

Horse Racing!

Mike and I traveled to Lincoln County to watch our friend Corallia run in the cutter races!  She did awesome, getting the best time of the day.  There were 8 races and 16 teams that ran the muddy dirt track Saturday afternoon. Great run, Friend!

 

Ruby is sure she is a human being.  She watches Mike's driving.  Ask him about his corner driving prowess that day!!

Beautiful Food!

 

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Afternoon Ski on the Walton Ranch

Great day for a ski - temperatures were balmy (comparatively speaking!) and there was no wind.  Took a great ski out at the Walton Ranch.  Not bad scenery!!

 

Kitchen Things

I vowed, in 2015, to quit cluttering my tiny kitchen counter.  Seriously, we are talking tiny here.  Currently, the toaster, a compost bucket, coffee beans and grinder sit to the left of the sink which measures about 3' x 2'.  To the right of the sink is the coffee maker, the soda machine, an electric tea pot and the water pitcher used to fill the coffee pot.  This side of the counter is smaller; 2' x 3'.

So here it is.  2016!  I just ordered this thing - a vegetable spiraler.  Check it out at Vegie Curler.  And, I bought that juicer (placed on the right side of the sink).  So, things have gone to hell in the kitchen so far this year!

The juicer Cold Press Juicer , while not cheap, is very good.

So, although these two items may - or may not be - on my top ten kitchen list, they have become part of my tiny kitchen and the food I create out of its space! 

Enjoy the last day of holiday!

Looking Closely

There is so much magic....if you just slow down and look closely....

 

And often, the beauty is right there in front of you.

Happy New Year!

We awake on the first day of 2016 to a thermometer reading of -25 degrees F.  It has warmed up to -20 by 09:00.  Hard to believe, right?  Check out the weather station for South Park, a community just to the north of us at South Park 24hr Weather  How do the animals outside survive?  We tend our chickens carefully.  Lock them up in the coop, warmed by the red glow of a heat lamp, careful to remember to let them out the next morning (stuck in a small coop all day is exactly where the phrase "cooped up" came from!  Chickens don't like it either!).

What does -20 look like?   I keep looking around wondering how to give an image that shows the bitter cold.  Opening the quilted shades this morning gave me a clue.  This is a hint of how cold it is - this frost on a double pane window. 

Always looking for the good, I do have a wonderful and spacious deep freeze just outside the door!  Two of the turkey carcasses (one got thrown away on Christmas before I could shut the malicious offender down - can you believe people throw turkey carcasses away?  So un-Midwestern!) got simmered into a giant batch of turkey broth and turkey soup.  Contained and labeled, the quick meals now are frozen solid outside the front door.  I think I have some time before figuring out how to get them into the freezer.

Upcoming blog post for 2016.  Soon I will be posting 10 Of My Favorite Kitchen Things.  I am working on what number one should be right now.......I hope you readers will find this posts fun and maybe valuable as you consider kitchen ware that works.  Yesterday, the cold press juicer arrived and Mike and I made our first batch of carrot, apple, beet, ginger, spinach juice.  DELICIOUS!  Thank you Mom for that Christmas gift (which I would have never purchased without the gift - your gift was a great incentive).

Happy New Year!  May big buildings burning down teach us how important fire codes really are!  May we all feel safe and live without fear as we travel around our nation and the world.  May we appreciate how amazing it is to live in this USofA.  May we turn off the TV more often, put down the iPhone, and look each other in the face and hear and talk.  May we laugh and love, ride a good mule, and drink good wine.  What more could one want for?