Eat Something Good

Every Thanksgiving I make some form of macaroni & cheese. I’m never satisfied with how it turns out so I’m on the eternal search for a good recipe that doesn’t necessarily use tons of different cheeses. That’ll rack up the cost for sure. So I felt inspired. I felt inspired by [...]

I once made quarts and quarts of fresh pesto from basil, pine nuts, olive oil, s&p. Everything gets thrown into a cuisinart and pureed. Then you can freeze it. I think it lasts a while. I forget how long. I think months. Anyway, I’ve seen variations of pestos combined [...]

I haven’t made baked ziti in ages. Here’s how I do it. I boil up some ziti (duh) and then toss it in sauce. We used our homemade sauce. Then for the cheese part. You take ricotta (whole milk), mozzarella (whole milk), chopped fresh parsley, one egg, s&p. I [...]

Homegrown. Not kidding. That’s what the box of macaroni & cheese says. Actually, it’s shells & cheese. They say it’s made with organic pasta and has “no artificial anything.” Well, we certainly put enough butter in it last night to undo all the goodness the package had to offer. [...]

Very mixed reviews for this one. Last night for dinner, I made tuna-rosemary pasta (thin linguine). To some, this dish may sound disgusting. To me, it doesn’t sound so bad but it sounds better in Italian. Something al’ tonnato (sp?). So the dish exists, I didn’t make it up. [...]

We had some leftover egg noodles from goulash night. So Steve and I brainstormed about what we could possibly do with it. He requested dishes like turkey tetrazzini and chicken a la king. I don’t recall having ever eaten either of them except that I do fantasize about turkey tetrazzini around Thanksgiving [...]