Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mac n cheese times three




Listening to an audiobook a day or two ago a (male!) cook was described as making a complicated dinner and keeping the kitchen pristine throughout.  This is my ideal and I almost never start cooking without thinking that I will "clean as I go".  The reality, every time, is illustrated above-- I have got to be one of the messiest cooks going.  This was a bechamel for Rachel Ray's macaroni and cheese with smoked cheddar.  The actual dish was superb-- one of three mac n cheeses at the First Annual Macaroni and Cheese Event held last night in Northport.  Joan Herrick made a tex-mex version and Angela Maniac (that can't really be how her surname is spelled but that is how it sounds) made a classic.  They were all excellent, much nicer than they look in the picture below-- it must be the tablecloth...




Loved this book-- laughed and cried!  If you read it, try just skipping the first chapter about aliens-- it made no sense to me.  The book was full of sentences that I wanted to read to someone-- Eliza, perhaps, who is actually pregnant and Viney who is also pregnant but in such a precarious situation that we can't count her chicks for perhaps the next six weeks.  So I told Eliza to read the book and perhaps later will give the same advice to Viney.

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