mmmmmm...

I just finished melting 6 cups of cheese and 1 stick of butter...along with various seasonings and milk....to make homemade macaroni and cheese.

It's the first time I've ever made real mac and cheese. I'm testing it out on my family before I make it again tomorrow for my sick father-in-law.

I'm not sure what message bringing a sick person food that could spontaneously induce a heart attack conveys.

Maybe something like this:

"If you manage to actually survive this meal, I hope that you'll get better!"

On The Menu

I felt well enough to make dinner. What with all the chopping and prep usually needed, I've been taking it easy during the last week.

Tonight DH and I, with our professional ginger-grating, garlic-peeling team of The Rationalist and Intuitive Monkey, made Chicken Tikka Masala.

Yum!

Indian Naan and white rice finished off the dish.

You can check out the recipe at America's Test Kitchen...but I think it could use a little less tomato paste.

The recipe list is here. You have to sign up to access it, but it's free.

What's For Dinner?

I hate cooking. I am not horrible at it. I do it every day, and yet it is one of my least favorite chores.

When I have fantasized about being wealthy enough to have a servant, the vision of someone happily cooking away in the kitchen hovers in my mind.

I used to enjoy cooking and had fun trying new things, but after almost seven years of staying at home, I'm over it. The time consuming task of food preparation, the actual cooking of it, and then the massive clean-up afterward gets very tedious.

But, considering that we live on a budget and I will never have an Alice, Hazel, or Mr. Belvedere to grace my modest kitchen with their culinary talents, the task is left to me.

So, tonight we will be dining on BBQ ribs done in the slow cooker, corn on the cob, and a fruit salad of fresh strawberries and bananas.

Simple foods for simple, cook-hating me.