RIB-EYE STEAK WITH WHISKEY CREAM SAUCE

My sister bought me this cookbook for Christmas. It's The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond. It is an awesome book! If you are looking for a unique gift for somebody this is the gift for a person who likes the country and cooking. She has some really neat pictures of her family and her life plus takes pictures step by step of what the recipe is that she is making. You can also find her at http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/

The next new recipe was rib-eye steak with whiskey cream sauce. This wasn't the plan as I was going to try a different recipe but I guess I wasn't paying enough attention and pulled out the wrong steak so I went with the steak that was thawed.

I had to call a neighbor to see if she had any whiskey I could borrow. She did, so I traded a dozen eggs for a 1/4 cup whiskey.

1-10 Allen rated it an 8. I think the rating would have been higher if he would have ate when supper was hot & ready and not 30 minutes later.

Where has MY kitchen gone to?

What a mess! I don't think I'm in my kitchen!!
This can't be my kitchen...nope...no way!

Cheesy Ham & Broccoli Soup

I am starting a week or so of trying new recipes. I will try to take pictures and let you know what turned out good and what not to waste your time on.

This was the first for us to try. The instant reaction from my husband was "Yuck! I don't like broccoli." I told him that he needed to try it anyway. Ends up he liked it! I asked him to judge it 1-10 and he gave it a 7! Pretty good for someone that doesn't like broccoli. I thought it was delicious. I did use the recipe like it said except for I didn't have potatoes in a can so i boiled 4 medium sized eggs. This was a good way for me to use my left over ham from a previous meal.

Motherly Love

This past weekend our heifers have started having their baby's! Saturday we found that a bull calf was born at our farm and Sunday a heifer calf was born at our house! Only 19 more to go! Both mommy's are taking good care of their calves and baby's are doing good too. Here are a couple pictures of them.

Lost Little Piggies

The other night, or should I say morning, Gage came in our room around 2 or 3 am and was crying. Here is my conversation:

Me: What's wronge Gage?
Gage: The piggies flew out?
Me: What?!
Gage: The piggies flew out of Brownie (our old feed truck) when we hit that bump?
Me:Piggies? What are you talking about?!?!?!
Gage: THE PIGGIES! There was a Daddy, Mommy and a baby. When you hit the bump they flew out the back! We need to go get them, get dressed mommy so we can go get them. They might get cold tonight.
Me: Gage, I think your having a dream. We don't have pigs. Lets put you back to bed and we will talk about it in the morning.
Gage: Okay, but will we find the piggies?
Me: We will talk about it in the morning.
Gage:What is a dream?
Me: Good night!

Morning came and the first thing out of his mouth was "Can we go look for the piggies?"
I was hoping he would have forgotten all about them.
I tried explaining what a dream was but to a 3 1/2 year old it just wasn't working. You forget as an adult that when your dreaming it feels so real. Heck, even now somedays I wake up wondering, for a moment, did that really happen??

Complaints

So with this weather we have been having I am tired.

• Tired of putting on 5 layers of clothes.
• Tired of having goosebumps.
• Tired of hearing my son ask if he can go play outside.
• Tired of hauling water to the chicken coop just for it to freeze up an hour later.

I know enough complaining. Good thing I don't live up north! I don't think I could handle that.


Speaking of Chicken coop. I have felt sorry for my chickens since their in molt. Last night I bared the cold and searched in the dark for the heat lamp they used when they were chicks and rigged it up out in their coop. I hung the lamp to keep them a little warmer. Not sure how much it will help but hopefully they are smart enough to go under it for warmth. You would think they would freeze to death with only 1/2 the amount of chicken feathers on them but they don't. Their a lot more tough than I am! I think I'll go home tonight and start making them sweaters...

Snow Day

Sporting his mom's sweet scarf! No! I'm not cold! Nope not me!
When will it be my turn?!
Dalton & Gage sledding

Sunday morning Allen, Gage and I went rabbitt hunting. After no success we headed back to town to try out sledding. The days before it was just too cold and had been really windy. Don't get me wrong Sunday was still REALLY cold but not as much wind. We hooked the sled behind the Ranger and pulled Gage around and around and around. After a while we went over to the McNickle's house and they came with us to play in the snow. Dalton had received a snowboard for Christmas so they played on that too. Gage actually could do a little snowboarding to my surprise. I may be raising an Olympic snowboarder from Kansas...okay maybe not. Anyways had a great day playing in the snow and hope to have more days like that before spring. If it's going to be cold we might as well have snow for the fun right!I don't think the kid would have ever went in if we wouldn't of made him!