Baked Macaroni & Cheese

Growing up I used to love when my mom made baked macaroni and cheese. It was such a large casserole that we’d just have that and maybe a salad. I’ve tried others but there is just something about your mom’s recipe that just can’t be beat. You’ll find no flour here or ham; just creamy, cheesy goodness.  It’s so easy I definitely suggest giving it a try!

Baked Macaroni & Cheese

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. box elbow macaroni
  • 1 lb. sharp cheddar,grated (even if you don’t like sharp, use it, regular cheddar’s flavor gets lost in this)
  • 8oz. evaporated milk
  • Several tablespoons of margarine or butter
  • 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs

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Cook macaroni until tender

In a casserole dish layer:

1. margarine

2. elbow mac

3. cheese

Repeat the layers until your dish is full, sprinkle breadcrumbs over the top and pour evaporated milk over the entire surface.

Bake at 350°F for about 45 minutes (or until breadcrumbs are toasted and you see cheese bubbling)

Fudge Brownies

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I’m always after a tasty, simple brownie recipe.  There are some yummy, elaborate recipes out there but I needed something that I could whip up in a matter of a few minutes and a recipe I could pass on to friends and family so they would try it too rather than going to the trusty store bought kind 🙂

I found this recipe while going through King Arthur’s website and figured I’d give it a try. I’m so glad I did, these brownies will probably be my go to recipe when I want to whip up a quick batch up brownies. I didn’t follow the recipe completely but it didn’t take away from the fudge goodness. The only thing that disappointed me was that I didn’t have any vanilla ice cream on hand!

Fudge Brownies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 1/4 cups Dutch-process cocoa (I didn’t have any on hand so I used half regular cocoa and half dark chocolate cocoa)
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon espresso powder, optional
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

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Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease the bottom of a 9″ x 13″ pan.  (Make sure you don’t grease the sides otherwise the brownies can’t “climb” up the sides.)

In a medium-sized microwave-safe bowl, or in a saucepan set over low heat, melt butter, then add the sugar and stir to combine. Return the mixture to the heat (or microwave) briefly, just until it’s hot (about 110°F to 120°F), but not bubbling; it’ll become shiny looking as you stir it. Heating this mixture a second time will dissolve more of the sugar, which will yield a shiny top crust on your brownies.

While the sugar heats a second time, crack the 4 eggs into a bowl, and beat them with the cocoa, salt, baking powder, espresso powder (I didn’t have any on hand but I do encourage using coffee/espresso to enhance chocolate!), and vanilla till smooth.

Add the hot butter/sugar mixture, stirring until smooth.

Add the flour and chocolate chips, again stirring until smooth. (I only added half of the chips and let those melt.I let the mixture cool for about 20 minutes and then added the other half so that the chips would remain intact inside the finished brownie)

Spoon the batter into a lightly greased pan.

Bake the brownies for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with only a few moist crumbs on it. Cool on a rack before serving. To get nice, clean cut brownies you’ll need to let cool for 2 hours. Don’t worry they’ll still be nice and warm to eat though!

Source : King Arthur Flour, Fudge Brownies

Happy Anniversary!

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Happy 2nd Anniversary!! I’m almost a month late posting this but better late then never huh? Things have been crazy here; selling our house, moving into a temp. apartment, building a house, surgeries, birthdays and anniversaries!

We celebrated our 2nd anniversary this year and since Alan planned our first I decided to plan the 2nd! We needed to stay home this year since we have so much going on but I wanted to incorporate the past with this year. So, I decided to recreate our wedding menu and go sailing here in Kennebunkport on the Schooner Eleanor. Not only is The Eleanor very similar to the Schooner Surprise that we sailed on last year up in Camden, but it’s also aptly named Eleanor 🙂

There are no pictures in this post since things were a bit rushed. Because of weather we had to move up our plans a day and I only had a few hours to make everything. With the help of my mom we got all the appetizers made from the reception, Alan and I went sailing and when we were finished we went and had dinner in our new dining room. That’s right, a romantic dinner in our newly framed dining room! Thanks mom for setting it up! I had linens, etc. from the reception all ready to go for her. I even was super corny and had a list of songs from the wedding on the iPhone 🙂 It was a wonderful night and one we’ll always remember!

Since Alan doesn’t like seafood I just decided to not even bother with anything he wouldn’t eat also. Eventually, I’ll get on here with pictures and recipes but our menu consisted of :

Prosciutto wrapped melon for the sail

For “dinner” we had :

Sweet potato and coconut chicken
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Bruschetta

Artichoke Fritters – stuffed with parmesan cheese

and for desert a little mini recreation of our wedding cake..

Chocolate cupcakes filled with chocolate ganache or raspberry preserves topped with Kahlua butter cream icing!

Our church from the sailboat and from 2 yrs ago, wow time flies!

Kitchen Model

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Building our new house has been very exciting, but for my husband it’s “been there done that.” For me, the kitchen possibilities are endless!! I’ve consulted many kitchen experts and I haven’t really fallen in love with anything. While I want this kitchen to be functional and great looking, it is not my “dream” kitchen. We’ll probably sell this house in 5 years and then build our dream house so for right now no Vikings or Sub-zeros for me!

We met with one custom cabinet builder and I had mentioned that seeing all of the renderings (even the 3D ones) weren’t much help for me. I needed to see pictures and tour kitchens for me to really get an understanding of the space. His solution? Build a mock version for me! It’s the first time he’s done this but I told him he really needs to do this for other clients! I got to take it home and move things, see it from every angle etc. Even the dogs got into the fun!

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