Five Favorites for Friday – Third Edition

Not sure why I think anybody but my Fab Hub enjoys the Five Favorites for Friday posts, but I’m going with it.  They make him smile.  I like when he smiles.

And so, without further ado, I submit for your entertainment (hopefully), my five favorites from this week.

1. Favorite obnoxious egomaniacal moment:  Food Network Magazine stole my food.  No, seriously.  My Food Network Magazine came in the mail Wednesday.  One of the recipes this issue is Butternut Squash Soup with Chicken Sausage.  I made pretty much the same thing for dinner last Tuesday.  Check it out.  I am so amazing; Food Network spies snuck into my brain and copied my dinner.  Riiiiight.

2. Favorite recipe of the week (besides the one the magazine people filched): Asian Beef Stew from Heather over at Modern Meals for Two.  She makes really good food.  Here is the Asian Beef Stew post.  You should make that for dinner very soon.  I promise it will make you happy.

3. Favorite thing Fab Hub said to me this week:  Earlier in the week, I could not wrap my brain around writing and was thinking I might just take the night off.  Fab Hub said, “Just make sure you don’t fall too far from the horse.”  Not sure if he meant “don’t fall off the wagon” or “make sure you can get back up on the horse”…or what.

4. Favorite thing Kidzilla said that she didn’t actually say:  We were out to dinner with relatives.  I ordered a side of grilled shrimp with my steak because, well, I can.  Zilla, my little Foodie, wanted to know all about it.

“Mamma, what is that?”

“It’s shrimp, Baby.  Do you want to try some?”

“Lemme smell it.”  (She does this…she smells any new food before deciding whether to give it a try.)

Sniff.

“I don’t want it.  It smells like crap.  And I don’t eat crap.”

What Zilla actually said was crab.  Both times.  But everyone at the table thought she said crap.

5. Favorite thing I said that I was trying not to say and just made it worse:  Zilla accidentally kicked Fab Hub in a place where Fab Hub does not like to be kicked.  He was unhappy.  Zilla continued to wiggle and squirm all over the place while still sitting on his now incapacitated lap.  I barked at her,

“Kidzilla!  Please stop kicking your father in the balls!”

Inside voice:  Oh, crap.  I just said balls.  Out loud.  And she…

“Balls???  What are balls???”

…heard me. 

And so I said, out loud, to no one in particular,

“SHIT!  I just said balls.  Oh, shit, I did it again.  Dammit!”

Fab Hub recovered enough to add his wisdom:

“Hon.  Wow.”

This week’s honorable mention is a tie between the Fab Hub and the Super Sister:

Fab Hub: “I think you should write all about me.”

“Why?  Did you do something funny?  Or ridiculous?”

“No, you should just write all about me.  Because I’m cute.”

He is.

Super Sister: “I think there should always be a mention about the funniest thing your sister said each week. Because I am funny.”

She is.

They are frighteningly similar, these two.

What were your favorite moments of the week?  Drop them in the comments, please!  It will make me happy.

Have a wonderful weekend!