Cheese & Google. Best Inventions Ever?

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

My friends were up to a lot of interesting things last weekend. For example, a number of my former coworkers are in New Orleans for a meeting, no doubt consuming beignets & copious amounts of liquor in their spare time. And many of my blogger friends attended PBandTuna: The Revenge, a party of epic proportions back in the District.

Me? I was cooking.

That's right! The girl who formerly resided in a kitchenless apartment is slowly but surely learning to cook - or dying trying. I'm currently visiting my boyfriend in New Hampshire for the week, & he doesn't really know how to cook either, so we decided we'd try to be the Neelys together, except white & inept & attempting to make food with some semblance of healthfulness (read: less than three sticks of butter per meal).

So we got on the ol' Google & planned out a few meals, & on Saturday, we whipped up our first attempt: mac & cheese casserole. I know, I know. You're all like:
  • Kate, this isn't a cooking blog! I don't carrrre. Get back to doing whatchu do best: being judgy & taking photos of crazy people.
  • Kate, mac & cheese casserole cannot possibly fall into the aforementioned category of "some semblance of healthfulness." 

You would certainly be correct on the first count. And, uhhh, upon my re-checking the recipe's nutritional information, you'd also be correct on the second, though the recipe did include spinach, which is healthy, right? Anyway, this mac & cheese casserole? Was so delicious that I swear I'd be over the moon if it were served to me in a restaurant. Though I can't begin to describe how my happiness tasted, it looked something like this:


Because I love you, I'm going to share with you this heavenly recipe, obtained from EatingWell.com. We changed the recipe up a bit, which I indicated below on the somewhat shoddy "recipe cards" I attempted to create. So... go forth & cook. Eat well & prosper! And please forgive me for the cards' inconsistent font sizes. Which you probably wouldn't even have noticed, but now you will. Shoot. Anyway, EAT WELL & PROSPER.

9 comments:

  1. What? You have recipes? Philistine!!
    No good food ever has a recipe! I recently tried a bit of teriaki sauce in my famous molasses beans... heaven. no, there is no recipe... I can only share the general parts... and will only do so if you promise not to tell

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love baked pastas! I'll have to give this a try =)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Ha! That's actually a dish Eric an I like making together. Ours doesn't really have a recipe, but the secret (are you ready for this?) is using ritz crackers instead of bread crumbs on top! SO AMAZING.

    ReplyDelete
  4. um, that looks AH-mazing. I have like a serious problem with mac and cheese, and now I am craving it for breakfast after seeing this post!

    http://adjewelry.blogspot.com/

    ReplyDelete
  5. I'd say you're off to a good start... you gotta take a slow path on mastering the art of cooking, you know? ;)

    I'll definitely try this recipe. It looks delicious!!

    P.S. Thanks for stopping by my blog :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. 1. You're boyfriend is adorable!
    2. I love baked mac & cheese; my dad makes a similar one and it is SO good. Now I'm hungry.. =)

    ReplyDelete
  7. oh my goodness, this looks delicious!!!!! i am thanking you in advance b/c i am SOO going to make it!!! i love the idea of those recipe cards~!! did you get that template from a site somewhere or make it yourself? i wana do that on my recipe posts hehe!!

    ReplyDelete
  8. I don't care how bad mac & cheese is for me, I'm never (EVER, EVER) giving it up. It should be it's own food group of deliciousness.

    ReplyDelete

Leave me some love.

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...