The Art of Modern Wifery

1 medium onion, chopped

1/2 red pepper, chopped

1/2 lbs (500 gr or about 6 mushrooms) crimini mushroom

1/2 lbs (500 gr) shitake mushroom

1 tsp salt

4 tsp flour

1 1/4 cup chicken broth

3/4 tbs paprika powder - if you have to choose between hot and sweet paprika powder, I would suggest that you'll pick the sweet one or your taste buds will end up with a burning sensation

2 tsp dijon mustard

1/2 lbs smoked chicken breast (about 1 big breast or D/E cup in human) - cut bite size

12 ounces penne/fussili - you can use any kind of pasta. I think at 1 point I mixed penne, linguini, and one of those shell shaped pasta, I mean they all taste the same anyway

1 cup light sour cream - sometimes I mix my sour cream and plain yogurt

1 tsp chopped fresh dill

Cook pasta as directed to your liking.

Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and red pepper, cook & stir occasionally until onion is translucent (about 10 minutes).

Increase heat to medium high, add mushrooms & salt. Cook & stir until mushroom are well browned (about 7 minutes). Reduce heat to medium low. Add flour and stir for about 1 minute.

Add broth, paprika powder & mustard. Mix and reduce heat to low and let simmer until sauce thicken (about 3 minutes).

Stir in chicken & dill & cook 1 minute. Before serving, mix in sour cream to sauce. Toss noodles with sauce. Enjoy!

Don't you hate it when you realize you are left with a little left over of uncooked wonton or egg roll or dumpling skin? I think it's a conspiracy between the manufacturers and the world' butchers association that you'll always have skin left over that will be too many to toss but too few to make another batch of wonton or egg roll or dumpling. It seems like mine always ended up in the freezer and in a couple months, when I decided to make more, they've become dry and I would have to buy more and toss them anyway.

So a couple weekend ago, we accidentally washed Msr. No Quatre' in 'may or may not be' hot water and ran it in the highest temperature of our dryer. Needless to say, his sweater shrunk to 1 size smaller and then claimed that it was his favorite sweater (it seems like we always ruin his 'favorite' clothes and everything is his favorite clothes once its ruined). After some asking around my network, and phone calls to mère de Msr. No Quatre, and research on google, I found some tips about how to unshrink wool sweaters. I like this one since I found it in both ehow.com and one of those website for fashionistas (and believe me, they take their cashmere sweaters seriously!)

Soak sweater in warm water mix with hair conditioner (They didn't specify how much conditioner I needed, but I had about 2 big squirts)

Then stretch (It'll help if you know how big it was originally. I kept on pulling and I might have make his sweater 1 size larger but no worries, we could just rewash his sweater in hot water right?! haha)

Drain water, do not wring sweater, but gently press it to get excess water out.

Place 2 absorbent towel on a counter or floor, put sweater on top and shape. With another towel, blot sweater to remove additional moisture. Lay flat and air dry.