My Last Chance at Being Coherant

Nov 052012
 

You will notice that this is not my typical Monday post for the following 2 reasons:

a)  There are no photos, and;

b)  I’m not updating you on the progress of the shed.

Now, you may ask, why the hell not?!?  (Or your jumping up and down with joy.)

Simple, and I will explain them in the following 3 reasons:

1)  I woke up with a major cold Saturday morning and I have temporarily lost any creative writing skills that I have.  When your nose is clogged beyond belief, ears plugged and every sneeze requires half a box of kleenex (where does all that snot come from anyway), the only functioning part of your brain is the signal that lets you know you have to pee.

Therefore, any eloquent post is completely out of the question.

2)  During one of my many sneezes, I moved/pinched/pissed-off something in my right hip, so I now walk like I have a stick stuck up my backside because of the pain (scoliosis sucks).

I’m real attractive at work.

3)  This is hell audit week at work, and since I didn’t get my Monday off, I also did not get to rest up my body and/or brain, so whatever functioning brain cells that I may have had are slowly getting disintegrated from endless information quests that the audit team sends me on.

There are 3 of us in the office and apparently I’m the only one they want to ask questions to.

I feel soooo lucky.

That was sarcasm, by the way.

So if this post made any sense whatsoever, I might possibly have just used up my last chance to say anything coherent for the rest of the week.

I hope to return you to your regularly scheduled boring fun-filled posts next Monday if I don’t spontaneously combust at some time before then.

 

Fritter Delicious

Nov 012012
 

I had an ulterior motive the other day when I was cleaning the deep fryer.  Actually, I think that anyone that wants to put the time, effort and elbow grease into such a task has to either a) be out of their mind; b) bored out of their skull; or c) wants to cook something and not have it taste like it came from the greasy spoon down the street.

Unfortunately, I fell into all 3 of those categories with only a slight hint of “b”.

After all, lately Monday’s have been Suzie Frickin Homemaker day around the house, and I did have one recipe that I’d been wanting to try for weeks.

These little morsels of sweetness were found on my travels of the interwebs that led to, of all things, a website that specializes in Greek food.

Jacquline over at Seeminglygreek.com posted the recipe and photos and I immediately knew that these would be fantastic.  I have always loved Apple Fritters, and the thought of little bite-sized portions to nibble on put them high on my yummy scale.

I was a little disappointed at first with the amount of batter this recipe made;  I mean, it really was small.  But when I dropped the first blob in the fryer and it nearly doubled in size, that disappointment ran out the door.

If you try this recipe (and I’m hoping you will) start with only a small spoonful of the batter.  Mine took about 5 minutes to cook and even after that amount of time I was still worried that they wouldn’t be completely cooked.

Also, flatten the batter a little as this will give me more of a “fritter” look (like the pictures on her website).  Oh, and maybe dip the things in the icing instead of pouring it over (like I did).

No matter how you make them, I think that you love these as much as Rick did!

 

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