Thought You Might Need a Laugh

I had a 5 pound cottage cheese container from church full of meatballs and sauce leftover from the teenagers Super Bowl party on Sunday night. So I thought I'd cook some whole wheat spaghetti noodles, mix them with the meatballs and sauce, put them in a casserole dish, bake with mozzerella on top, serve with salad and garlic bread and call it dinner. I boiled my noodles, drained them, mixed in the meatballs and sauce and went digging for a 9 X 13 dish. This is when it dawned on me that I need both of them for the jello jigglers that D.K. is taking to school for his birthday tomorrow. I'm figuring that we won't finish the entire dish tonight and I don't wanna have to wash it to make the jigglers, so I decided to use two 8 X 8 dishes instead. This seemed like a great idea until I started pouring the stuff into the first dish. Halfway thru the initial dump, I realized that I hadn't broken the noodles in half. This made pouring just half of the mixture into a small dish next to impossible. About the time I started to pull the pot away from the dish, the dish slipped sideways making the pot full of heavy noodles and meatballs fall forward. Well, let's just say that the mess took awhile to clean up. Thankfully I managed to keep it all on the counter so we are still having baked spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.

Lesson learned: If you want to put spaghetti noodles into two separate dishes, you need to either break them into small pieces before cooking so they will not dump out in one big clump, or you need to spoon them out with your spaghetti thingy!!