Isn't today Wednesday?

OK, I thought we did the writing assignments on Thursday but Mama Kat has hers up today. I will follow her lead (since she's the one handing out the homework) and do mine today. I was bad last week and didn't do my homework so I am doubling up today.

I choose prompts #3 (5 most recent favorite things) and #4 (favorite recipe). My favorite recipe is one of my favorite things so it all fits together rather nicely.

Here we go!

1. We love movies. We never go to the movies for 2 reasons. One, it's too damn expensive, and two, I'm not taking two kids under the age of 5 to the movies. We also don't rent movies because I ALWAYS take them back late and get charged a billion dollars. So, we buy movies. We buy movies all the time. We check out the cheap ones at Wal-Mart, the ones the local video store is selling, and the Dollar Store. The Dollar Store always has pretty good movies for 6 bucks. I bet we have over 1000 movies. And we do watch them over and over so it's money well spent. Anyway, my favorite movie right now is one I bought Monday. It's called Definitely, Maybe. I love it! You have to check it out. Ryan Reynolds is so cute one of the main characters is named April. Can't go wrong there.

2. My favorite recipe is chicken and dumplings. It's pretty easy too, it just takes a while. These are the only chick-n-dumplings I will eat and I LOVE them.

First, boil a chicken for a hour while you have a beer. You can change this to just breast but I think the whole chicken makes it taste better. Oh ya, don't use a pot with Teflon or it won't thicken up later.

Put chicken in strainer to drain and cool. Leave chicken water in pot.

Get 4 things of the cheapest biscuits from the store, some news paper (the paper is important) and a bunch of flour.

Lay out newspaper, dump a bunch of flour on it and open cans of biscuits.

Cover each biscuit with flour and roll out flat. You can use a rolling pin but I just use a glass. Stack them, then cut the stacks to make 9 sections.

Go get the bones out of the chicken and tear chicken into bite size pieces. Then put back into water. Bring water to a boil and start adding your dumplings. OK, here is the tricky part. Don't stir or they will go flat. I just move the ones I already put in to the side to add more. But make sure to scrape the bottom of pan so they don't stick to the bottom.

Add a splash of milk, salt and pepper to taste and once you get the final dumpling in, they are done. Wrap up newpaper that's covered in flour and through in trash.

See, easy peasy. If I can do it, I know you can. And they are so worth the time it takes to make them. Toot loves helping with the flour so kids are encouraged to help if you don't mind a mess.

3. My pajama pants from Wal-Mart. They are fuzzy like my robe and so soft. I wear them all the time and bought the shorts for when it's warm.

4. My phone. It's a Palm Treo and I love that I can check my e-mail on it and that my texts are in chat form.5. The DVR at my folks house. We don't have sat tv and we are dog sitting this weekend so she is recording a bunch of stuff for me to watch. Yep, she's cool like that.

So there ya go. Now head on over to Mama Kats cause she's already got it up and check out what everyone else had to say.