PEEEEEEEEEEEEWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I love you Pee-Wee!

Last Night's Recipe: Iceberg & Watercress Salad w/Bleu Cheese

This dressing was the BEST! I couldn't believe something so good would come out of some pretty simple ingredients. We debated if the bleu cheese was expensive or not, at $2.50 I didn't think so. The original called for chives & celery but we skipped both. I would think the celery would make it more interesting for sure, but the chives might be superfluous. This dressing was FAR AND ABOVE anything we've bought in the store -- plus the store bought adds tons of corn syrup (WHY?!) and soybean oils (????). I highly recommend this one if you like bleu cheese dressing you won't believe how good it is.

Iceberg & Watercress Salad w/Bleu Cheese

Salad
2 bunches watercress
1 head iceberg lettuce

Clean above ingredients, discard coarse stems of the watercress and slice iceberg lettuce crosswise.

Dressing
1/4 cup mayo
1/4 cup sour cream
1 4oz. package crumbled blue cheese
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1-2 tbsps milk or water

Whisk all ingredients except milk or water, then thin to desired consistency with water or milk (we used 2 tbsps milk).
Enjoy! This made enough for about four people.

Chicks with Pug Starring Francis as 'Franny'

Last Night's Recipe: Crockpot Chicken Tikka Masala

This could turn into a new feature for supah.com I like testing out fun recipes in the kitchen! I tend to use the crock pot a lot because I like to slow cook a lot of stews & soups & misc. So here's what I did with Chicken Tikka Masala which is usually used as a sort of marinade for grilled chicken - it's re-purposed to be made in the crockpot!

Crockpot Chicken Tikka Masala

1.5 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breast diced into large cubes
1 tablespoon dijon mustard (my substitution for mustard seed oil)
2 ounces milk
5 ounces natural yogurt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 small can of tomato sauce
5 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 can chopped green chilies
2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons garam masala*
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric

Whisk together all of the ingredients minus chicken in your crockpot. Then mix in diced chicken. {{ FROM ORIGINAL RECIPE >> If you want to marinate at this point, place mixture into the fridge to marinate for 24 hours. It may not be safe to leave chicken which has previously been frozen for longer than 24 hours, but fresh chicken should be left to marinate for 48 hours for best results. If you do not wish to leave the chicken to marinate, simply continue to the next step.}} Turn the crockpot on low until the chicken is cooked throughout. Most people serve over Basmati rice (?), but I'm kinda weird - I would serve over some new potatoes had we had them in the house, instead - we had them with one of our staples: texas rolls (frozen dough that you thaw - let rise & then bake).

I would give this recipe 4/5 supah stars. Since it's the first try, I think next time it might be a 5. Over rice (even though i usually HATE rice) sounds like it would even everything out. The sauce was AWESOME and such a pretty color too. The yogurt makes everything nice & creamy and delish!

*= Note about the garam masala
Adam didn't find the garam masala at the store, so I threw together 1/4 tsps. of each of the following (if we had it in the spice rack), threw it into a coffee grinder and added it to the crock pot. All of the spices are supposed to have been roasted, but ... I'm no martha.
• coriander seeds
• nutmeg
• cardamom
• cumin seeds
• black peppercorns
• caraway seeds
• cloves
• cinnamon

the world is coming to a painful and slow end: the NASCAR Sofa

WE MET ERNIE BAGADONUTS!

For the record, I don't know what kind of face I'm making there. What was going on in my head was: he's so cutie cute, I have to go 'kitten gettin,' but I can't because we already have too many animals, but he's so stinkin' cute ... so the photograph captures my expression of somewhere along that thought cycle ... Just weird lookin! I think it's my pursed and twisted lips. That's adam over my shoulder in case you don't know his handsomeness & that's the reception area at the paper! Go team kitten gettin!

Marc Antony and Pussyfoot Do you remember when the kitten makes his bed on the doggie's back? I loved that.
I helped my friend name her brand new white male adorable little kitten. His name is 'Ernie Bagadonuts,' plus her dog thinks the kitten is HIS BABY. He actually tries to carry the kitten around the house. Too much cuteness for anyone to handle.
Here's a photo she took of the dog guarding his baby, inadvertently trapping the little guy in the litter box.