Tuesday, May 11, 2010

mac'n'cheese


so, this is a "midweek recepie" which means a simple dish apropriate for dinner/lunch on weekdays. now, i've never tasted that mac'n'cheese from a box so this is a mac'n'cheese and I have no idea wheather it tases like the real thing or not. anyway, since this is a weekday recipie I'm not going to bother with measurments and also I'm only cooking for one so this is just basically a suggestion. I've used frosen vegetables except for the carrots.

pasta of your choice
vegetables: asparagus, carrots, peas, mushrooms
cheese, take what you like/ have in the fridge
yellow mustard
creme fraiche
an egg
rosted sunflowerseeds
breadcrumbs

boil pasta, I've used penne, while that is boiling away boil water for wveggies in another pot. I had some asparagus which i chopped up, but left the tip fairly big. when the asparagus is almost done i added chopped carrots, since these only need a few seconds to preserve it's nutrients. pour away the water and leave it in the sieve for now. fry up some mushrooms. now the pasta should be almost done, add some frosen peas (ok, so I didn't have room in my veggiepot for the peas..) pour off the pastawater but save some in the bottom of the pot, this will be used for melting the cheese.

put the pasta/peas to the side and grate some cheese into the pot (take it off the heat so it doesn't burn) add yellow mustard or mustard powder, i used colemans about a teaspoon. then a tabelspoon or so, depending on how many your serving, creme fraiche and an egg. take care to whisk when your adding the egg unless you want omelett.. put it back on the stoveplate and whisk until it thickens. you can also make it like a carbonara. season to taste. add all the pasta, veggies and mushrooms and stir together. I rosted some sunflowerseeds and breadcrumbs ontop for some crunch...

oh and seeing the picture now. it doesn't look that great but it kinda is, so try it sometime and let me know what you think..

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