Back to the Routine

     Well today it was back to school for the Spud and a full normal busy work day for me after a long weekend.  As a treat, I reprised for breakfast the Cheese Omelet again but made it as a 2 egg omelet this time, and I managed to get it out of the pan perfectly this time. Spud was thrilled and declared I had finally master better eggs than dad! I took that as high praises, since I have never mastered eggs.
     Keeping in the easy comfort food theme as we settle back to routine, I tried Ruth's version of Macaroni and Cheese, page 223.  This also was handy as I haven't made it to the butcher yet so we needed to be meatless! Personally I am usually a fan of the recipe on the Mueller's Macaroni box, with Velveeta substituted for cheddar.  Luckily I pretty much have that memorized from years of practice, because I am having a very hard time finding my favorite elbow macaroni standby. Since the old Jersey City Mueller's manufacturer sold the company to the American Italian Pasta Company, the pasta is just getting harder to find. The recipe is still available at  http://www.makesameal.com/home.asp?p=recipes.asp&r=172 and of course works just fine with any elbow brand, but it just isn't the same for me.  The Gourmet version is pretty similar actually, but it uses heavy cream and cheddar to make it very rich.   The cheddar makes the mac and cheese a little oily as it bakes, I still prefer Velveeta.  The twist I did like form this recipe though was the added Red Pepper Flakes. It gave a little kick.   What ever recipe you choose, it's mac and cheese, and its good no matter what.
     We we needed to add something green to this dinner, so I made the salad, Bibb Lettuce with Butter Dressing, page 130.  This salad isn't exactly quite what I would call healthy, because of the butter dressing, but it was easy and quite tasty.  Its very simple and just the slight lemony garlic flavor was wonderful.   And still we got in our greens.
   Well I am going to plan out some food and hopefully call in an order to Joe's tomorrow, so I can make some new and exciting things next week.
  

Catching Up

    Well I am back to my life as a mom, so I was off playing this week and not really cooking or blogging.  The Spud hated the Spinach Cheese Strata as his first breakfast home.  His feeling is that spinach has no business being with eggs, even though he likes both separately.  I personally am  finiding I can't eat eggs anymore.  Coco and I really liked it though, and it served as breakfast for a few days as it reheated nicely.
    Last weekend I also made Triple Chocolate Fudge Brownies, page 689 which were delicious and fudgy, a perfect brownie consistency.  I don't like chips in my brownies so much though, and even though I used mini chips, they were still evident and it changes the texture.  Without them though, they would just be Double Chocolate Fudge brownies! 
    We didn't really eat out anywhere too interesting to blog about, so we'll just fast forward to today.....