Knotty Mouse

This is the part where I distract you with a pretty sky photo because I’ve got nothing even remotely bloggable today. I didn’t get much knitting done (and I’m sure y’all are getting tired of seeing that entrelac scarf by  now.. ) because I was at the grocery store for part of the day and cleaning up the wreck formerly known as the kitchen. My only other choice of a post up until my husband pointed out the sky was our dinner.. my odd Americanized version of Indian Samosas.  I’m sure you could also call the things Curry Hot-Pockets as well.. because that’s about what they are.  Ground beef, cooked potatos, peas, and various indian spices and peppers are wrapped inside dough and put in the oven..  I serve them with plain (natural) yogurt as a dipping sauce.  They’re mighty tasty.. and also make great leftovers - tomorrow we’ll put the remaining filling with some saffron rice and toss it with yogurt. Yum.

After reading about it on another blog and remembering having it before.. I got the wild idea to make Monkey bread with munchkin. He loves to cook and bake.. and its something I’d definitely not like to overlook.

I used the recipe found here (thanks Sandy…) because I remembered that it was made easily with store bought biscuit dough (the other recipe was from Martha Stewart and required you to make your own dough and other silly things like that.. ). The one thing that I forgot was that it required a bundt pan but we could pick one  up at the grocery store in the baking aisle. Unfortunately we couldn’t spend $11.00 on a bundt pan at the local Publix- so I got all MacGyver in the kitchen with the tin foil.. and created my own bundt pan. Unfortunately I forgot that the real pans are hollow in the center to allow heat to get in and cook whatever is in there.. so our monkey bread had to cook quite a bit longer and required being slopped onto a cookie sheet mid baking.

Regardless.. you can see that it was well enjoyed by the whole family and is going to rate a bundt cake pan coming into our kitchen upon the next available paycheck.

mmm… sugary goodness.

  I almost managed to forget that it was Saturday.. when you are sick the days seem to run together. Being sick made me crave comfort food something fierce, and we have had homemade soup for the last few days for dinner. I started out with the intention of making some buttered egg noodles for dinner and somehow ended up making chicken vegetable noodle soup! I used a can of chicken, a bag of egg noodles, bag of carrots from the fridge, half a bag of stew veggies left in the freezer, a can of chicken stock, and a can of tomatos.. also some spices, garlic, and onion flakes. Usually my attempts at homemade soups have been less than stellar - but this one was so good that I didn’t mind eating it for 2 days.. I’m pretty sure it was due to the fresh garlic and all of the seasoning I threw in.. but man, was it good.

I did manage to photograph another Saturday Sky.. this one was taken only about 30 minutes ago as the sun was going down. Hubby left us money for pizza - and we took advantage of the situation and ordered delivery from Pizza Hut for dinner tonight. I was busy chowing down on some mushroom, ham & extra cheese pan pizza with the munchkin while watching Disney Channel and realized that I was going to miss getting a picture for today; so I raced outside and nearly tripped over the cat! She’s been acting rather flakey and territorial since hubby left on Thursday and I’m not looking forward to another week of her being under my feet every two seconds.