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Right back atcha, Brad.

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Ok, so maybe cookie dough for dinner isn’t so bad. I had plans to fill us up with melted cheese for dinner (making fondue), but I bought the wrong cheese. So, we relied on cheesey fallback option – mac ‘n cheese. Lloyd and I have different methods of eating this timeless classic. I like to nuke a spoonful of diced tomatoes with some dried basil and spoon it on top – it makes it slightly more healthy. Every time I eat it I remember a dish we were served at my elementary school – macaroni noodles (no cheese) with stewed tomatoes. I hated it then, but now I love it. (Lloyd says I’m lucky they didn’t serve me cats.)

mmmmm.....fake spaghetti....

Lloyd prefers to eat his cheese-covered carbohydrates by pairing it with more carbohydrates dipped in a blasphemous cream-cheese-and-salsa mixture. (Looks gross, tastes great.)

two basic food groups

Noodley-oodley

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Somethings are just better when they’re homemade – bread, pizza, wine, ice cream, cottage cheese, noodles, ….. um, maybe this post is going nowhere. Let me tell you my noodle story.
I keep lurking on these cooking blogs where seemingly normal people are making fantastic-looking food in their normal kitchens and then photographing it to make it seem unattainably beautiful. I read one and wanted to make noodles from scratch. I’ve watched Alton Brown do it on t.v. with all the pasta machine doo-dads, then I read about people who have done it only using flour, an egg, some salt & water and a knife. I wanted to try that. I’m glad I did, but I might not ever do it again. These noodles turned out ok, but nothing can beat Kluski noodles. A good day is chicken soup with Kluski noodles.

Assemble software.

stir with hardware.

kneaded and ready to roll

It was difficult to stop rolling. So fun!

I omitted the cutting picture. How much of this could you take?

I seem to be using lots and lots of flour lately. I don’t know what the obsession is. I think I like that flour doesn’t talk back to me. Or pee it’s pants. Much.