Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Thirsty Thursday

It turned out not too bad today. Once the wind dropped off.

Everyone was enjoying themselves, and a few enjoyed some wild water.

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And grabbed some footage of the kiddos

Love the videos ~ brings the still photos from previous posts to life

 

[TOMTE]

Happy Birthday

Have a great time at your mother's. Try and get the recipe if you can

Challenge accepted!

To the best of my ability, recipe under the spoiler

Spoiler: (TOMTE's mom's* potato soup recipe

*technically great grandma's, but obviously I grew up with my mom making it for me

This is very much a "throw it together" type recipe. No exact measurements provided, in other words

You need:
A big pot
Water
Milk
Po-ta-toes (boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew)
Yellow onion
Celery
Noodles (large shells [not jumbo] like these are what my mom has always used and they are the best imo)
Egg(s), raw
Salt and pepper

Step 1: Peel and chop your vegetables. Cut your potatoes into equal sized cubes, but not very small, so they cook evenly and relatively slowly (unless you want them mushy). Add them to the pot. Cut your onion and celery, add them to the pot. In all, your vegetables should fill half or a little over half of the pot.

Step 2: Add water to the pot so that all of the vegetables are submerged with water to spare, if that makes sense. You need the extra water for step 3. Put the pot on the stove over a medium heat and cover it. You want to bring it to a low boil, stirring occasionally.

Step 3: Once it's boiling, test the potatoes with a fork. They shouldn't be soft yet, but they shouldn't still be completely hard either. Basically, when you poke one with a fork, it should have some give but still be firm in the middle. Once they are, uncover the pot. Add your noodles, which is why you needed the extra water. Really, how much water you need depends on how many noodles you want in your soup. I like a lot of noodles. Stir them in and bring the pot back to a boil. Cook the noodles until they're how you like them, basically. It's tricky to get the timing right with the noodles and potatoes. You also need to keep the onion and celery in mind. It's so thrilling!

Step 4: Turn the heat off and add your milk. I hope you left enough room in the pot, because you need a lot of milk... The broth should be white. You need to do this pretty quickly!

Step 5: Crack your egg(s) into the pot. QUICKLY stir it! Make especially sure you break the yolks quickly so that they don't scramble, but disperse into the broth as a liquid and thicken it. This will also give the broth a bit of color! The egg whites will cook and heres why shell noodles are the best for this recipe: they're like tiny edible soup bowls in the soup, and the bits of egg white get tucked up into the shells along with the broth and bits of veggies and it's sooo yummy...

Step 6: Let it cool, salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy!

Tax

That blur is Magrat. I don't think I've posted this picture yet? I love it

 

[Sylvester017]

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Beauty Parlour girls break for refreshments

 

[Marie2020]

Challenge accepted!

To the best of my ability, recipe under the spoiler

Spoiler: (TOMTE's mom's* potato soup recipe

*technically great grandma's, but obviously I grew up with my mom making it for me

This is very much a "throw it together" type recipe. No exact measurements provided, in other words

You need:
A big pot
Water
Milk
Po-ta-toes (boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew)
Yellow onion
Celery
Noodles (large shells [not jumbo] like these are what my mom has always used and they are the best imo)
Egg(s), raw
Salt and pepper

Step 1: Peel and chop your vegetables. Cut your potatoes into equal sized cubes, but not very small, so they cook evenly and relatively slowly (unless you want them mushy). Add them to the pot. Cut your onion and celery, add them to the pot. In all, your vegetables should fill half or a little over half of the pot.

Step 2: Add water to the pot so that all of the vegetables are submerged with water to spare, if that makes sense. You need the extra water for step 3. Put the pot on the stove over a medium heat and cover it. You want to bring it to a low boil, stirring occasionally.

Step 3: Once it's boiling, test the potatoes with a fork. They shouldn't be soft yet, but they shouldn't still be completely hard either. Basically, when you poke one with a fork, it should have some give but still be firm in the middle. Once they are, uncover the pot. Add your noodles, which is why you needed the extra water. Really, how much water you need depends on how many noodles you want in your soup. I like a lot of noodles. Stir them in and bring the pot back to a boil. Cook the noodles until they're how you like them, basically. It's tricky to get the timing right with the noodles and potatoes. You also need to keep the onion and celery in mind. It's so thrilling!

Step 4: Turn the heat off and add your milk. I hope you left enough room in the pot, because you need a lot of milk... The broth should be white. You need to do this pretty quickly!

Step 5: Crack your egg(s) into the pot. QUICKLY stir it! Make especially sure you break the yolks quickly so that they don't scramble, but disperse into the broth as a liquid and thicken it. This will also give the broth a bit of color! The egg whites will cook and heres why shell noodles are the best for this recipe: they're like tiny edible soup bowls in the soup, and the bits of egg white get tucked up into the shells along with the broth and bits of veggies and it's sooo yummy...

Step 6: Let it cool, salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy!

Tax
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That blur is Magrat. I don't think I've posted this picture yet? I love it

Thanks

 

[RoyalChick]

Challenge accepted!

To the best of my ability, recipe under the spoiler

Spoiler: (TOMTE's mom's* potato soup recipe

*technically great grandma's, but obviously I grew up with my mom making it for me

This is very much a "throw it together" type recipe. No exact measurements provided, in other words

You need:
A big pot
Water
Milk
Po-ta-toes (boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew)
Yellow onion
Celery
Noodles (large shells [not jumbo] like these are what my mom has always used and they are the best imo)
Egg(s), raw
Salt and pepper

Step 1: Peel and chop your vegetables. Cut your potatoes into equal sized cubes, but not very small, so they cook evenly and relatively slowly (unless you want them mushy). Add them to the pot. Cut your onion and celery, add them to the pot. In all, your vegetables should fill half or a little over half of the pot.

Step 2: Add water to the pot so that all of the vegetables are submerged with water to spare, if that makes sense. You need the extra water for step 3. Put the pot on the stove over a medium heat and cover it. You want to bring it to a low boil, stirring occasionally.

Step 3: Once it's boiling, test the potatoes with a fork. They shouldn't be soft yet, but they shouldn't still be completely hard either. Basically, when you poke one with a fork, it should have some give but still be firm in the middle. Once they are, uncover the pot. Add your noodles, which is why you needed the extra water. Really, how much water you need depends on how many noodles you want in your soup. I like a lot of noodles. Stir them in and bring the pot back to a boil. Cook the noodles until they're how you like them, basically. It's tricky to get the timing right with the noodles and potatoes. You also need to keep the onion and celery in mind. It's so thrilling!

Step 4: Turn the heat off and add your milk. I hope you left enough room in the pot, because you need a lot of milk... The broth should be white. You need to do this pretty quickly!

Step 5: Crack your egg(s) into the pot. QUICKLY stir it! Make especially sure you break the yolks quickly so that they don't scramble, but disperse into the broth as a liquid and thicken it. This will also give the broth a bit of color! The egg whites will cook and heres why shell noodles are the best for this recipe: they're like tiny edible soup bowls in the soup, and the bits of egg white get tucked up into the shells along with the broth and bits of veggies and it's sooo yummy...

Step 6: Let it cool, salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy!

Tax
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That blur is Magrat. I don't think I've posted this picture yet? I love it

Happy birthday for tomorrow.
I have never had potato soup with noodles. Enjoy!

 

[Ponypoor]

My mom is picking me up today so I can visit her and my younger sister for my birthday tomorrow

My mom makes THE BEST poor peoples' potato soup (that's what she calls it ) it's always been my favorite and I'm so incredibly HYPED to eat an entire pot of it! .... Okay... Not the whole pot. 3/4 of the pot...

7/8 of it...

...

I'll try not to eat it all, that's all I can promise

Fluffy butt tax!

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Sounds yummy! Enjoy! And happy birthday!

 

[Ponypoor]

Challenge accepted!

To the best of my ability, recipe under the spoiler

Spoiler: (TOMTE's mom's* potato soup recipe

*technically great grandma's, but obviously I grew up with my mom making it for me

This is very much a "throw it together" type recipe. No exact measurements provided, in other words

You need:
A big pot
Water
Milk
Po-ta-toes (boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew)
Yellow onion
Celery
Noodles (large shells [not jumbo] like these are what my mom has always used and they are the best imo)
Egg(s), raw
Salt and pepper

Step 1: Peel and chop your vegetables. Cut your potatoes into equal sized cubes, but not very small, so they cook evenly and relatively slowly (unless you want them mushy). Add them to the pot. Cut your onion and celery, add them to the pot. In all, your vegetables should fill half or a little over half of the pot.

Step 2: Add water to the pot so that all of the vegetables are submerged with water to spare, if that makes sense. You need the extra water for step 3. Put the pot on the stove over a medium heat and cover it. You want to bring it to a low boil, stirring occasionally.

Step 3: Once it's boiling, test the potatoes with a fork. They shouldn't be soft yet, but they shouldn't still be completely hard either. Basically, when you poke one with a fork, it should have some give but still be firm in the middle. Once they are, uncover the pot. Add your noodles, which is why you needed the extra water. Really, how much water you need depends on how many noodles you want in your soup. I like a lot of noodles. Stir them in and bring the pot back to a boil. Cook the noodles until they're how you like them, basically. It's tricky to get the timing right with the noodles and potatoes. You also need to keep the onion and celery in mind. It's so thrilling!

Step 4: Turn the heat off and add your milk. I hope you left enough room in the pot, because you need a lot of milk... The broth should be white. You need to do this pretty quickly!

Step 5: Crack your egg(s) into the pot. QUICKLY stir it! Make especially sure you break the yolks quickly so that they don't scramble, but disperse into the broth as a liquid and thicken it. This will also give the broth a bit of color! The egg whites will cook and heres why shell noodles are the best for this recipe: they're like tiny edible soup bowls in the soup, and the bits of egg white get tucked up into the shells along with the broth and bits of veggies and it's sooo yummy...

Step 6: Let it cool, salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy!

Tax
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That blur is Magrat. I don't think I've posted this picture yet? I love it

Yum! Sounds good!

She can fly!

 

[Ponypoor]

Today Flopsy kicked up such a fuss in her crate I had to let her out. She is in th Summer House and has been quietly picking around and behaving - until now.

I just checked the camera and what’s she doing? Picking around alright, but picking around Mr P’s pin feathers on his head!



If I come home and he is covered in blood again I am plucking every single feather off his head and tail out, so they can’t pick at him!

This is getting ridiculous, these hens are driving me bonkers with them picking at him.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Went out to fill water bowls and top off feed, forgot my phone.
But one of the legbar roos was having a grand time in the dirt bath, chuckling to himself and rolling around. What a great sound.

 

[Marie2020]

Today Flopsy kicked up such a fuss in her crate I had to let her out. She is in th Summer House and has been quietly picking around and behaving - until now.

I just checked the camera and what’s she doing? Picking around alright, but picking around Mr P’s pin feathers on his head!



If I come home and he is covered in blood again I am plucking every single feather off his head and tail out, so they can’t pick at him!

This is getting ridiculous, these hens are driving me bonkers with them picking at him.

Bad Flopsy