Stuffed Bell Peppers

This past weekend Sarah and I had a friend come to visit, so I looked in the fridge to figure out what I wanted to make for dinner. We had three bell peppers that had been in there for a little over a week, so it seemed the appropriate thing to do to cook those up. I decided to stuff them, which tends to be hit or miss for me (I think I may actually have a previous post on here about stuffed peppers from when I lived with Lilly) but I'm happy to report these were one of the better variants of them that I've made thus far in life.

I threw a tomato and some onion into my little food processor followed by a couple of garlic cloves.

Then I put in two sausages (I went with a chicken sausage that had apple bits in it) and an egg. I proceeded to blend it up for a few moments until it looked pretty unappetizing. 

Then I stirred in some melted butter, some stuffing mix (which I failed to capture a picture of, but I used the pepperidge farm stuff that comes in a bag, that lives in my pantry for occasions like this and to top baked mac and cheese...of course), and a little bit of water to just get everything moist, but not so much that it wasn't immediately absorbed.

Then came the peppers of course. Halving them, discarding the seeds, and filling them up with the sausage and stuffing mixture.

I topped them with shredded mozzarella and threw them in the oven at 400*F until the cheese was starting to turn golden brownd. 

We ate them with a small side salad and some prosecco, and I was glad they didn't come out terrible. One did magically become unstuffed in the oven though... I'm still not sure how that happened, but I just scooped the filling back into the pepper. Sarah liked how they tasted but wasn't a fan of the texture of the filling, it was too smooth and possibly too moist. But other than that success! See you next Tuesday!

Mac 'n' Cheese

The other day I made Lilly and I homemade mac 'n' cheese for dinner, and. it. was. great! (which is good, cause we may have some left overs!) Basically we had a ton of cheese in the fridge, and we love mac 'n' cheese, so it was only a matter of time before this came to fruition. I more or less kind of followed this recipe. 

As previously stated in other posts, for some reason rectangle and square pans aren't really something we have, so I used two circular casserole dishes.

I didn't really measure the pasta, I just cooked up a whole box. ( It should be noted I have a near unhealthy addiction to noodles).

Also, didn't really measure the cheese, just eye balled it. I used slices of american cheese and then grated a few different cheddars. Finished off a little hunk of extra sharp cheddar we had, used some normal cheddar, and then for a little flavor I decided some garlic & herb cheddar would taste good. And it did! Also, I did not use an onion, which is surprising, I love onion. Who knows. Also didn't use salt and pepper, yay.

I topped it off with some stuffing mix. (Cause who doesn't love stuffing, and why didn't this recipe call for some sort of bread crumbs on it! sheesh).

I poured the white sauce over it and into the oven it went. Now when it came out the white sauce was still on the top, I had kind of expected it to seep down into the macaroni, and was a little worried it didn't. But guess what? I had no need to worry.

Yum, yum, yum. I love me some mac 'n' cheese. Seriously. You should make some. Until next time, have a great week!