Rainbows, Home Made Hot Pockets, Para Cord Bracelet, New Chihuahuas

We had a little rain and wind the other day. I snapped this pic off the side porch of the house. Pretty huh? 

I've tried once before to make hot pockets when the kids were still living here. They were...OK. I used pie crust, mozzarella, pizza sauce, and pepperonis. It didn't seem to make near as much food as the work I put into it. I couldn't get the edges to seal well. The pie crust puffed up too much. I just wasn't very happy with the results even if the kids did gobble them down faster than I could pull them out of the oven.

Somewhere while surfing the web I ran across the idea of using pizza crust. I don't remember where I saw it. I wasn't even sure I remembered it right. I went on ahead and bought 4 packages of WallyWorld's pizza crust mix though. I love cheese steak pizzas. I'm also very cheap. I didn't want to spring for a single package of thin sliced steakums when I was already buying hamburger in bulk. So I've been making these pizzas with ground hamburger.

Cheese steak hot pockets

2 packages of ready to mix pizza dough

1/2 pounds ground hamburger

1 jar alfredo sauce

1/2 green pepper diced

grated mozzarella (honestly I forgot how much of this I started with when I started grating, and I ate some while I was working)

   optional- sauteed onions and mushrooms. These are really yummy, but wreak havoc on my tummy, so I skipped them this time.

This made enough for 6 pockets, and enough dough left over for a small personal pizza.

• Brown hamburger and peppers. Salt and pepper to taste. While the hamburger is cooking, preheat the oven and start the pizza dough in two batches. It will have to set for 5 mins and rest. 
• Roll out one batch of the pizza dough in a big rectangle.
• I made notched in the dough to divide it into 6 hot pockets  
• Add 1 tbs spoon of alfredo sauce in each square and spread, leaving room around the edge to seal the pocket.
• Pile the hamburger, peppers, and cheese on the alfredo sauce

• Roll out the other batch of dough to cover
• Cut into six pockets
• Seal each edge of each pocket by pressing gently with your fingers, then gently with a fork

I think I baked these on 385 for about 20 mins or until golden brown. I watched my oven because I knew the pizza was going to be done before the pockets.

I've been fiddling a little bit with Para Cord Bracelets. I made one for Scott a bit ago, and one for Mike. I don't know what the kind of know was, and I'm too lazy right now to go look it up. I just scrolled through some videos on YouTube until I found something I liked. Scott asked me if it was possible to make one for him a little flatter and a little wider. So again, off to YouTube I went. This is what I came up with this time. Sorry, crappy phone cam doesn't catch the color right, but I liked it. So did Scott.

I haven't taken any good pics of them. I'm such a slacker Mommy. I took two chihuahuas home from work. They were a customer's of mines. He just didn't want to deal with two needy little dogs anymore. Too much work for him. Their names are Molly and Wiley. Molly is the red female, and Wiley is the tan male. Scotty calls them the Sorrel and the Palomino. They are 2 years old this past Feb. Both spayed and neutered. Molly is neurotic, but we're working on. Wiley is a snuggle bunny.