Posted by Ethne~
Well, Friends, Valentine’s Day has almost come to an
end. Shaun and I enjoyed a brief
respite without the girls thanks to his parents picking the girls up every
Thursday and giving them dinner.
How did we celebrate? Ham and cream cheese roll-ups and
frozen pizza. As Lori would say,
rock on crouton!
Our sweet next-door-neighbor, Jim, plowed our driveway AGAIN
– I’ll have go get him a gift card to Home Depot and a box of chocolates. Isn’t that so nice?!
We’ve seen most of our family, or will be soon, so this
makes me wish I saw my bffs today – Steph, Grizz, Slags, Kari, Dot and of
course, Lori – a big cyber Valentine goes out to you my Loves!! (I did talk to Lori a couple times for
updates on the Jodi Arias trial, which was super fun. And I texted Kari about how Josh Duhamel
should be Christian Grey. And I
texted Steph, Grizz and Slags many times about more things than I can write
about here.)
Theodore is sitting on my lap as I type this, and he keeps
turning on the caps lock key. I
love you, sweet, pesty kitty with no teeth. This brings me to a conversation Shaun and I had two nights
ago. All true.
Me, to Theodore: God #$%^&&, you #$%^& cat!!!!!!
Shaun: What is going on?
Me: Theodore just rubbed his paw on my kindle and turned the
page of my book to 99% and I was only at like 40%!! [You don’t get page numbers, just percentages of completion
in kindle books.]
Shaun: Maybe if you wouldn’t let him sit half on your lap
and half on your kindle…(pregnant silence)
Me: No, I like him half on my lap and half on my kindle, it
just pisses me off when he messes up my page and I don’t know how to find it
again.
Shaun: You can’t really complain then…(pregnant silence) [We
both know that’s just a rhetorical statement.]
Me, to Theodore as he settles back in, half on my lap and
half on my kindle: A$$hole.
Shaun: ??
Me: Theodore is like the best child ever. You can swear at him all you want and
he still loves you and has no idea what you’re talking about.
Shaun: ??
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| I told you it was true. |
Finally, since this is a blog where we teach you how to do
stuff, I thought I’d tell you how to make Homemade
Buffalo Sauce, just to keep things SPICY! I made some the other day and TRUST ME, it was perfect.
(BTW, Theodore did not assist in the all-caps of those words.)
I used Frank’s RedHot
sauce – it comes in a big ol’ bottle and unsalted butter.
In a microwave safe bowl, put a ½ stick of butter and 2/3
cup hot sauce.
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| As I like to say, that is a sh*t-ton of hot sauce |
Shortly before you are ready to eat, melt the two together
in the microwave. I did this in
30-second increments, stirring each time, until the butter was melted and
everything was all blended thoroughly together.
I liked it served warm. We made homemade chicken nuggets the night I made this sauce
– the buffalo sauce for Shaun & me, and homemade honey mustard sauce for
the girls (I prefer honey mustard with Dijon but only had yellow; the girls ate
it just fine).
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| PS, my nuggets weren't burnt, they were dalish. |
