Pizza and Wine

Our Bavarian pizza has risen to a new level: several weeks ago Sarah made a cheese similar to cream cheese, but with the addition of caraway seed. Recently this cheese began to take on the smell of Camembert, so we thought we oughta use it up. So Sarah whipped up some rye dough for the crust, and had enough left over for 3 loaves of rye bread. Anyways, we spread the homemade cheese over the homemade crust, covered that with homemade sauerkraut, and topped that with fried Aldi's bratwurst. My goodness, this thing was the best yet.


In other news, my floor corker came just in time, I used it yesterday. It was funny, I have waited some many months to justify the expense of this particular tool, but it paid for itself in the first bottling and it wasn't even a full batch! Sarah got a video of the corker in action.



I wound up with a case of 750 ml bottles (thanks Ma), and one 1.5 l bottle (thanks Nuccia!) There was enough left over to try some that night, which was the first night we spent on the hill.



We picked that particular night to spend at the pond because yesterday was the last day of school in McGraw, and it seemed likely that the (presumed) teens would spend the evening trespassing and making a mess of the pond. No dice though. Perhaps our presence was enough to keep them away. We'll just have to sacrifice and spend more time camping at the hill.

Since spring began to transition into summer Sarah and I have been blown away by the size of the wild strawberries in the field, but last night we discovered that they don't hold a candle to the strawberries in the forest!


And not just strawberries, but the raspberries of the forest are just beginning to ripen as well. Hmmmm, what else...there are a number of redberry elder bushes, but we've only confirmed what we've read...unimpressive fruit. However, there are also some elderberries (we think) which have yet to bear though they are now in flower.

So anyways, we spent our first night on the hill by the pond, and cooked some hotdogs and bratwurst. Amazing! We also cooked some kale with butter and water in a mess kit. Sarah says they are getting bitter, but they're still a lot better than any turnip or collard greens I've ever had. But what a green!


I liked them.


And lastly, our freezer came today, which means Sarah and I have a keezer! My controller set-up isn't the prettiest girl at the ball, but she keeps our beer and cider cool.