Today or tomorrow my broiler chicks should arrive. They left McMurrays yesterday and will be delivered by the Post Office truck to the Postmistress then she calls me. So everyone moves along a chair – the Accident Chickens have been shifted out of the Halfway house and into the tin chicken tractor, the Easter chickens have gone to live in the top half of the Halfway House (the warm snug side) and the little brooder has been prepared for the next batch. Musical chicks.
The broiler chicks have chosen a cold night to travel but the drivers are pretty good at looking after the boxes of chicks so I hope they get here OK. We are still dropping below freezing every night – But at least the next few nights do not have rain and wind as company for the cold.
The water barrels are full. Evidently the barrels carry the tastiest water.
All in all we had a busy but lovely Sunday, with friends for lunch and a beautiful sunny day for farm work.
In the end I made Russian meatballs in a cream sauce. With Russian meatballs you add a cup of cooked rice per pound of ground meat, an egg, garlic, half a small onion – make nice big meatballs and roll them in flour or cornflour. I always brown them first then make a white sauce using lots of lovely fresh cream, (add sour cream too if you like, pour over the meatballs and cook until done. These were served with home made egg noodles and a huge green coleslaw from the garden, and freshly baked sourdough rolls.
Divine.
Good morning. Yesterday’s comments were wonderful. I love it when you all rise up and share who you are with The Fellowship. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful group of women and men in the Fellowship of the Farmy. I say ‘We’ meaning you and I. I find the Lounge of Comments to be one of my favourite places to visit during the day.
I hope you have a lovely day. Today as well as the usual chores I am preparing for my first guest helper. He comes tomorrow.
Love your friend on the farm
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
42 responses to “Musical Chicks”
as always your photos are divine- I feel like I am there watching the musical chicks and standing by your stove smelling the yummy meatballs!
I think my mother called these Swedish Meatballs?
Thanks for your delicious blog!
Swedish meatballs are made with breadcrumbs, but just as tasty!
Those meatballs sound great. The accident chicks–what are they destined for? I’m afraid to find out–they are soooo cute. I can’t keep straight all the chickens.
I think three of them are hens so they will be layers, the roosters are all for the freezer.. I have enough trouble with too many roosters already
I think rain water in a barrel must be mighty delicious or refreshing… something like that. I can clean Daisy’s water tub (the old wildlife bathtub) down below, and catch her drinking dirty puddle water on the driveway. Oh, those meatballs sound lovely. It’s a good thing we are hard working farm girls… or we’d be fat as ticks!! 🙂
ha ha ha .. I know it!!
Lunch does sound delicious. Since you have cream, do you add cream to your mince a couple of hours before you make them up? It makes them really soft on the inside, rice or breadcrumbs – makes no difference, but the cream does! And I agree with browning meat first. I wouldn’t use cream in Asian style meatballs but European style -yes! In fact that will be my tip for the book – cream in meatballs.
Funny thing about cats, mine have a nice clean bowl of water inside, and we are on rain tank, so its no different to the outdoor water, but they still prefer the buckets and plant saucers for drinks. The bucket shot minds me of calf feeding, I mix up the milk in a big bucket like that and leave it while I put on my wet weather gear, in just a couple of minutes it has drawn two cats to slurping warm milk off the top of a two foot high bucket. Calf rearing is a few months off yet though….
Aha.. cream in the mince? No I did not know that.. an excellent tip.. that should certainly go in the book.. c
The water (rain or otherwise) that is sitting outside is always the best when our 2 indoor kitties go out in the backyard. They wander about, but always come back to the little trays, etc. for a drink. We call it “wild water”, there must be something in it that tastes much better. Do be careful about kitties falling in the barrels though, perhaps Our John can come up with a removeable lid that has screening on it? That would help cut down on mosquitos laying eggs also.
Hurray for new chicks
Chris S in Canada
I know! They do have lids, just not ON them!! must do that!! thank you chris..c
I cannot stop looking at Naomi. She is so beautiful.
She has a lovely nature too.. a cuddly baby cow.
There are few things in life as fun as getting that early morning call from the postmistress. Whether it’s the happy call (chicks here!) or the scared one (please come get these bees ASAP). Happy spring!
*smile* How can one make meatballs without fresh breadcrumbs? – sayeth an erstwhile European foodie !! Not specifically Russian or Swedish!!! Some freshly grated raw beetroot more than would love to join!! Heaps of onion and [well the other Estos might not concur!] some garlic . . . . superyum!! Do hope The chickies are happy with their barn dance!!!
lovely 🙂
I admire you soooo much (and am just a tad jealous haha!)
I hope you have a lovely day too .. Musical chickens ..I love it! 😀