What's for Dinner, Feb. 16, 2018

[NJCher]

Macaroni and cheese with jalapeno and cauliflower. It's a "bake until bubbly" type dish. I made it a few weeks ago and now I want to try it with a variation. This time I'm using cheddar cheese with horseradish.

Arugula salad with parmesan and pine nuts.

For dessert, a couple pinwheel cookies, which are stuffed with cocoa. Trader Joe find.

[Yonnie3]

1. Chinese

Or at least that's what TJ told me as she headed out the door to go see a friend 2 hours ago. I assume take out or delivery.

The local place is good, but not great.

[Yonnie3]

2. A bubbly mac-n-cheese is high on my comfort food list.

Your variants sound good.

I would put almost anything in them. Leftover meats (bacon, deli ham, etc), veggies and even hard boiled eggs. I never made it with jalapenos, but that is just happenstance.

If the additions outweigh the macaroni, I just call it a casserole. Enjoy!

[NJCher]

3. it was 60/40

cauliflower/macaroni. The horseradish addition was good!

In a speech class I taught a few years ago, I had a student do a "how-to" speech on her crabmeat macaroni and cheese.

I sliced the jalapenos with the mandolin and stirred them into the cheese mixture; then I folded everything together and baked it with bread crumbs on top.

[Yonnie3]

4. Cauliflower and cheese is such a good combo.

Plus the kick from the jalapenos and the horseradish sounds really good. I was wondering if the horseradish was from a root or the prepared stuff I usually buy?

[NJCher]

5. horseradish source

it was mixed into the cheese, but I could have grated some as I have a root in my refrigerator drawer. I was a little afraid both the cheese and the root itself would be too much, but after tasting it, I think I could have added some.

I grow it. There is nothing like fresh horseradish, all the time! It's especially good grated in seafood cocktail sauce.

[Yonnie3]

7. Horseradish anecdote from my younger days

I was shopping for the ingredients to make a ginger chicken recipe. The grocery had ginger roots next to horseradish roots in the produce section. I took the wrong root home. The results were interesting.

[PennyK]

6. Well, we had a FAIL for dinner

My daughter selected cod (it's a fluffy white fish, Mom!) to saute in the grill pan. The fish was one giant fillet, really thick, at just over two pounds, and even though I cut it into hunks, there was no way it was going to cook through the way she was doing it. Eventually, it started to flake apart. I had breaded some and was frying it in another pan, and I took some of hers and finished it in my pan. The chimmichurri she made was just okay. She also made a cucumber-tomato salad which did not thrill us. I ended up making a grilled cheese at 11 PM lol.
Tonight's and tomorrow's dinners will be better!