I am going to try something a little bit different. I have been doing dinners for my wife and I for some time and I am always trying to come up with something new and different. I decided to write about what I chose and what I did to cook the meal. This I will do in different forms to see if I can have fun with it and maybe get some ideas on what else to put together. As you can tell I tend to watch a lot of "Food Network" on the television. Let me know what you think.
Tonight was the "Food Basket" variety. These items also had to be in the house and I could not go to the store for other items. I chose four items and they were, Macaroni, Green Bell Pepper, Bacon and Velvetta Cheese. I think it might be obvious at what I did.
I first started the macaroni and then cut up the bacon into little pieces and put them into the fry pan to cook and get well done. I wanted to have them crispy. I then made a rue with butter, flour, salt, pepper. Once the sauce was mixed and ready I put in the Velveeta cheese to melt and added the crispy bacon. Once the macaroni was done I then added the mixture to the macaroni and then cut up the Green Bell Pepper and added it to the mixture I had going. I decided to add some French Fried Onion Rings to the mix and stirred this all up.
I was happy with what I accomplished and what I learned was that the cheese will set up if let stand too long. This happens when my wife does not make it home at the time it is ready. I try to time myself and see if I can have the meal on the table at the time she arrives. Tonight it did not work that way. Still I think the concept was good and it tasted good as well. Will I do it again? I don't know.
I will start taking pictures of what I have accomplished so you can see what I come up. My wife said I would continue on to the next round.
Have fun in the kitchen.....
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