home from class, in bed, can’t move, thinking about all the food i want, here’s a list:
nick and i have this long standing joke about bloggers who cook and make something with literally two ingredients and take fancy pics of their dish and suddenly people think it’s this unbelievable plate that is really just plain ordinary. see: smitten kitchen’s spaghetti with cheese and black pepper and food 52’s asparagus and torn bread. are you kidding me? people need the recipe for this stuff? sometimes the internet is the worst.
Hummus is legitimately the best snack food ever because it goes with basically everything and I could swim in an ocean of it and never be sad cause it’s so tasty and I’m telling you guys, this library sesh is on fire because of snackin’ on hummus n carrots and pretzels.
“This is Julia Child’s recipe and the one I’ve used since I started making mac and cheese. The important thing to remember (as JC says) is to cook the roux until it turns the color between buttery yellow and light hazelnut. What ruins a good roux is not cooking the flour enough. It gives a pasty taste to the sauce. That being said, cooking the butter too much will give it a burned smokey taste that you also don’t want. A roux can be used for a veloute (which uses stock instead of milk) as well. And so, on to the sauce:
2 cups of milk
2 tb of butter
3 tb of flour
2-3 cups of grated cheese
salt and pepper
Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed saucepan and blend in the flour. Stir with a whisk or a wooden spoon. The butter-flour mixture will bubble and settle as you stir. Cook for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat until it turns from a buttery yellow to a light hazelnut color. You may heat the milk in a separate saucepan just below simmering or you can add it cold. However, remember that when you add in cold milk you have to add it in a little bit at a time as it heats up to the temp of the roux. Add the milk stirring constantly to get out any lumps. The mixture should be creamy but not to thick (the cheese will thicken it up a lot). Add the cheese and continue to stir as it melts. Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix cooked pasta and the cheese sauce and (boom!) Mac and cheese.
I know that things are tough for you right now. But please remember that I am always thinking about how I can make your life better. Mac and cheese always made my day better whenever things got rough. I love you.”
White Bread / Twin Sister
All Around and Away We Go (Alternate Version)
Why is it that every time I come home from the gym I want to eat everything in sight?! And by everything I mean junk food, junk food, junk food. Fear not, I resisted the urge and grabbed almonds instead. ARGHHH.
ugly cried on a street corner tonight, came home and toasted focaccia bread, poured the greenest olive oil on top with milky handmade mozzarella from lou’s sprinkled with sea salt and i feel a little better.
tonight i came home to a plate of spring parmesan (from di palo’s), crusty bread wedges, and my favorite beer that nick put together for me and it was the sweetest. now: jelly roll morton, online shopping, and a sleeping snoozy babe laying on my chest. i’m so happy right now.
Bacon, egg, smoked gouda and cracked pepper breafast sammy on toasted wheat bread with a cup of winter solstice tea on the side = the best when you’re sick and it’s raining and there is no school or work today.
