Ok...the mac and cheese was pretty tasty, but Paula's recipe calls for nutmeg...I think I would leave that out, but it was still very good. Glen thought it was as well and the family ate it (so that does say something)... I'm sure you could get the recipe from her website. I picked up her 5th anniversary keepsake magazine and that is where I got the recipe.. Glen seriously said just the day before that he wanted homemade mac and cheese and there it was right on the cover so I bought it..The first thing I noticed about the recipe when I went shopping is that it calls for Gruyere cheese which is (gulp) $21.00 per lb...We made it in the 9 x 13 stoneware baker from PChef and grated all of the nearly 9 cups of cheese (sharp cheddar and parmesan along with the brick of solid gold...er I mean Gruyere) on the our new course grater. It was fast and pretty easy to make. I did make the mistake of thinking it wouldn't make enough for all of us so we "one and a halfed" (yes you are learning my new whacked out language of cooking) the recipe and now have enough left overs for tomorrow and can send home some home with my daughter and her family to have tomorrow as well.
As long as I'm at it...here is the simple recipe for Creme Brulee (still not spelled correctly) from the cookbook "Recipes from the Roof" (worth the price...go buy the book..yum)
3 cups heavy cream
6 egg yolks
1 cup sugar (divided)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Fresh berries (for garnish)
Preheat oven to 300. In medium sauce pan, heat cream until just comes to a boil. Turn off heat. Meanwhile in a med. bowl, whisk egg yolks, 1/4 cup sugar and vanilla together. Add the warm cream to egg mixture and whisk. In a small sauce pan, melt and burn 1/2 cup sugar, until it is a light carmel color. Gradually whisk the burned sugar into the cream and egg mixture until well blended (Glen and Shelly Note: the sugar will crystalize when it hits the milk...just whisk it and it will melt together).
Place 10 (2 oz) ramekins in a 9 x 13 dish. Divide the cream mixture evenly among the ramekins (We choose to use 4 (5 oz) ramekins instead and just cooked them a little longer). Pour hot water into the baking dish until about 1/4 inch deep - if using the small ramekins or 1/2 inch deep in the larger ramekins) Bake for 35-40 minutes (or a little longer for the larger ramekins) or until center is set when the pan moves. Remove from water, cool and chill. Just before serving, sprinkle remaining sugar over the top and burn the sugar using a small blow torch (found in most cooking stores). It will burn a dark carmel color.. Yum!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Since Last Week 6-26-11
Well...here it is..Glen and I decided that we wanted to start blogging about our adventures (mostly the ones in the kitchen) but just in general as well. I used to write a weekly column in a newspaper entitled "Since Last Week" so I thought I would resurrect it for the blog. That way, even if no one else ever reads it, we will have a journal of sorts of our life - at least from this point forward.
As we get ready to leave our "40 somethings" behind us in a few years, it is becoming increasingly more apparent that at some point in the not too distant future it is going to be just us and our blind dog living at home...speaking of blind dogs, that is the most significant thing that has happened since last week in our home. Our little jack russell terrorist..err, I mean terrier... has glaucoma in both eyes now and in spite of all the medicines and eye drops, she woke up last week and couldn't see to jump off the bed. At first we thought we might have to put her down, but she does seem to be adapting. This morning she even ran after a bird that buzzed her in the front yard. It's kind of weird that the birds seem to sense that she isn't a threat any longer. Now they just taunt her...Dang birds.
We first got to thinking about blogging when our daughter gave us this excellent cookbook of a local restaurant. As we started trying a few of the recipes we thought that we should log our results somewhere...thus the idea of blogging (thank you Julie and Julia for the awesome idea)...First we tried the "poached salmon" which was soooooo easy and yummy too. The sauce was better than any I have had and we made it ourselves...sour cream, tabasco, mayo and lemon juice...Seriously? Who would have thought. (Recipes from The Roof). Next he tried the Creme Broule' (not spelled correctly, but too lazy to look it up). The hardest part was finding the little dishes. We honestly could not believe that making this complicated dessert was so easy and so good. Too easy, in fact. We have decided it is not something we "should" make too often, even though we "could" if we wanted. Special occasions only!
Thanks to the cooking show network on TV and my career selling the best cooking tools on the planet (the pampered chef), we are having a blast and getting it done fast...Today's adventure brings us to Paula Deen's homemade macaroni and cheese (y'all). Serving it up with some fresh corn on the cob and chopped salad. The kids and our grandbaby (and really, I mean GRAND BABY) are coming for dinner today so it should be a real hit. We'll keep ya posted..Thanks for visiting!
As we get ready to leave our "40 somethings" behind us in a few years, it is becoming increasingly more apparent that at some point in the not too distant future it is going to be just us and our blind dog living at home...speaking of blind dogs, that is the most significant thing that has happened since last week in our home. Our little jack russell terrorist..err, I mean terrier... has glaucoma in both eyes now and in spite of all the medicines and eye drops, she woke up last week and couldn't see to jump off the bed. At first we thought we might have to put her down, but she does seem to be adapting. This morning she even ran after a bird that buzzed her in the front yard. It's kind of weird that the birds seem to sense that she isn't a threat any longer. Now they just taunt her...Dang birds.
We first got to thinking about blogging when our daughter gave us this excellent cookbook of a local restaurant. As we started trying a few of the recipes we thought that we should log our results somewhere...thus the idea of blogging (thank you Julie and Julia for the awesome idea)...First we tried the "poached salmon" which was soooooo easy and yummy too. The sauce was better than any I have had and we made it ourselves...sour cream, tabasco, mayo and lemon juice...Seriously? Who would have thought. (Recipes from The Roof). Next he tried the Creme Broule' (not spelled correctly, but too lazy to look it up). The hardest part was finding the little dishes. We honestly could not believe that making this complicated dessert was so easy and so good. Too easy, in fact. We have decided it is not something we "should" make too often, even though we "could" if we wanted. Special occasions only!
Thanks to the cooking show network on TV and my career selling the best cooking tools on the planet (the pampered chef), we are having a blast and getting it done fast...Today's adventure brings us to Paula Deen's homemade macaroni and cheese (y'all). Serving it up with some fresh corn on the cob and chopped salad. The kids and our grandbaby (and really, I mean GRAND BABY) are coming for dinner today so it should be a real hit. We'll keep ya posted..Thanks for visiting!
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