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Soup Sunday:  We had a very lazy day and I made a big pot of soup.  We had not electronics, other than church online and a book on tape while we played cards as a family.  A pot of soup seemed fitting.

Monday: Burgers.  The rest of the week it looks like we are going to have rain, so we had a fun night of burgers and fries.

Tuesday: Cinco De Mayo falls on Taco Tuesday!!!!  We will  be doing a taco feast!  Tons of extra veggies, like carrots and radishes, to add to the tacos just to take them to the next level. Homemade chips!!  It will be wonderful!  I can taste the lime and cilantro already!

Wednesday: This is suppose to be a cold day.  Turkey and gravy over rice with pan fried radishes and kale salad.  If you have never had pan fried radishes you have to try them.  Just a little butter melted in the pan. Half all your radishes or cut them up however you would like.  Top with pepper, garlic and onion powder.  Just let them cook in that heaven till they are soft and slightly brown.  It is really just heaven. One of my favorite things from the garden.

Thursday:  My daughters night to cook!  I think she is planing something with steak!  I told her to work in a ton of veggies.   If I had to guess, I would say she is going to do hobo packets on the grill with cabbage, potatoes and steak.

Friday: Breakfast for dinner.  Sausage, kale, onion and cheese quiche.  I make this recipe with kale or chard.  Goat cheese or cheddar.  This is such a flexible meal.  It takes the pieces that I have in the fridge and turns it into an amazing dinner.  I will probably make baked apples to go with this.  Just a simple farm dinner.

Saturday: Fried Chicken.  We save all the drum sticks when we butcher the chickens and we put them to the side.  We use them sparingly throughout the year to make them last.  Fried chicken is such a treat.  We only eat it every couple of months.  We savor every bite!  I am going to break tradition and make Brussels spouts instead of cabbage, might even make sweet potato fries.  I’m hungry!

Sunday:  Mother’s Day!  I am the Mother and my favorite food is pizza!  Or kale soup.. it will depend on the weather.

In the kitchen: Made Greek Yogurt, make cheese, churn butter, freeze butter milk and feed whey to pigs. Freeze kale for future soup.  Yogurt starter.  Kale chips.

Garden:   In the garden we are harvesting kale and radishes.  Last week we planted potatoes.   We have planted the tomatoes and peppers outside under plastic.  The seeds we have sown so far in the ground outside are: beets, radishes, lettuce, carrots, peas, chard, kale, and onions. In the high tunnel we have started carrots, beets, radishes, peas, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, and kohlrabi. Please feel free to jump in where we are!  Go out and plant the things we have planted outside!!!!   There is still frost to be careful of, know when the last frost is in your area and plan around that.  We are a zone 6.  We could still get frost for another 2 weeks.

In the Barn:  We have 9 bottle baby goats.  They are all little cute jumping beans and keeping us very busy.  The vet visited today, took care of the goats and drew blood.  It was a routine visit.  We have 10 turkeys doing well in their new outside turkey yard and house.  We have 28 sustainable meat bird chicks in the brooding pen.  These are meat birds that will hopefully be able to provide our family with meat for a very long time into the future.  The chickens are not liking being locked out of the garden and they have stopped laying.  The ducks do not currently like the goat roommates.  We still do not have piglets but we keep hoping for a miracle.