cooking BIG~

We went out to the bear hunter's camp last night for supper.  Slim volunteered to cook up the crew a mess of his famous potato dumplings and pork roast, served with sauerkraut and gravy followed up by a big slice of deep dish apple pie (which I made...lol... he's not getting all the credit for this meal).

Now when I say my Dear Hubby likes to make dumplings ... he likes to make dumplings!

 

He made 54 of them ... and served them out of a bus tub.  They're about the size of a big softball!

It takes 20 pounds of potatoes and 8 pounds of croutons!  I call them gut bombs ... trust me ... when you finish this meal off ~ you feel like Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner combined. 

He made the pork in a big Nesco Roaster ....  all 20 pounds of it.

None of the guys walked away from this meal hungry ... and if they did ... it was their own fault ~ because there was a LOT of food on the table.  Enough, that they'll be having leftover fried dumplings today for their lunch. 

While Slim was cooking ... and we were waiting on supper ...

I took some time to shoot off a few pictures of my Grandlove Bailey and her friend, Gage.  They were so cute playing together.  They were playing tag, then decided to gather some wood for the fire pit.  It started out with them just bringing over some twigs ... but the twigs just kept getting bigger and bigger each time they came out of the woods. 

It was nearly impossible to get them to sit still long enough for these two photos ... they were so wound up.

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I managed to pick my apples off the trees yesterday, before the big freezing frost we had last night.

I also had another box full that had fallen already ~ they won't hold up too long because of bruising ~ so I'll save those for the deer and birds once it gets cold and snowy .... a nice little treat out on the feeders.

Now I need to get my butt in gear and can up some applesauce and make some apple pies for the freezer. 

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel