2013’s not-too-regularly-shaped pizza pockets
My choice of snacks didn’t help the Packers at all – they lost anyways. Seems to have been a big problem with their defense.
The Packer salad – bacon & fried cheese curds on top of lightly dressed greens – was quite good; I’d make it again – with more bacon.
The pizza pockets were a little of a pain – they didn’t come out as nice and neat as the ones I made the year the Packers won the Super Bowl. I was using up the last box of frozen puff pastry leftover from the holidays in the freezer – and the sheets stuck together – they wouldn’t unfold. I rolled them out and did not end up with the regular 12″ square, to cut into 16 3″ squares as directed in the recipe. I had a slightly misshapen 13 x 15 rectangle, so my pockets were all kinds of sizes. Still, I would make these again, using my own yeasted dough, maybe, instead of the puff paste.
I tried not paying too much attention to the game – I left and showered, and the Packers tied it up – but even though I went and made polenta for Sunday dinner, there was no coming back after the half.
Disappointing. When Rach and I walked this morning – the first time for a long time, since she just got back from her month away yesterday afternoon – there was a whole gang of men in the coffee place, grumbling about the game. And I know John’s not too happy about it. Maybe if he’d of made the wings … tho I suppose, Silver Linings Playbook (and my brother and all the other superstitious sports nuts in my family) to the contrary, what us fans eat and wear and do probably has nothing substantial to do with the outcome of the big game … probably.
