Black Spaghetti and .....

The boys had a friend spend the night a little while back, so to freak them out, I served black spaghetti. Yep--when it cooks it looks like worms. Their friend was so amused by it, he had to take pictures of his plate (with his cell phone camera...) to show HIS friends since nobody was going to believe there is such a thing as black spaghetti....I found it at SuperTarget (in their grocery section). It is colored with squid or octopus ink, but that also give it a faint fishy smell, so we may not be serving it again--but it was fun for one time. I could see serving this with Alfredo sauce and shrimp though--unfortunately my kids won't eat that...picky eaters....
I looked in my Better Homes and Gardens pink cookbook and found the absolute best recipe for both pizza crust and cinnamon rolls. The cinnamon rolls were REALLY good! Since I used my dough hook on my KitchenAide mixer, it all went together quickly. YUM! I was in a baking mood this week....
I had to post this one! I came upstairs and there was Charlie cat lovin' up on Cute Man. It looked like bedtime story time --except cute man was reading some engineering text about compressible fluid flow...yep--that would put me to sleep too. However, I had to grab my camera and as soon as Charlie cat saw THAT THING, I got THIS face.....
So of course I HAD to take the picture. If the cat had any pride left, it's shredded.....At the other end of the bed was Socks and Smokey. Socks is getting faster at getting the heck out of Dodge when he sees me with a camera--But he's not fast enough!! HaH!

Other than baking and harassing my animals, it has been a reasonably slow week. I'll post knitting pictures and some pictures of a painting I'm working on tomorrow. I'm trying to "make art" every day--one way or another. Some people make art on paper, some people make art through cooking ... it's all good!

One good spot: We got a call from an elderly couple about half a mile away --Cute man's flight bag had been stuffed in their bushes. The headsets were gone, but all the flight manuals and important papers were all there. I guess they didn't know what to do with them--so I am thankful they didn't just scatter them to the wind or throw them away. Those are pretty hard to replace. We did file a police report and were told there were 6 other people on our street that had reported something missing. Car doors stay locked....and outside lights stay on all night....

Good friends and great coffee to you and yours!