Mac-n-Cheese

I am so terrible, I just realized that for this year I have approximately one post per month...so, so lame. Fortunately for my family, this is no indication of how much I have been cooking:)...I just keep failing at this whole "having a blog" thing. Anyway, tonight I made mac-n-cheese that turned out awesome...which is good, because the recipe made enough to feed us for the rest of the week. I got the recipe of off the Pioneer Woman website...my latest obsession, most of my posts (if I ever write any) will probably be repeats of recipes from her website...so feel free to just skip reading my blog and go to hers...she's much more faithful and already has a huge amount of great recipes (I've tried at least ten in the past two weeks) that are all awesome.

I used the mac as a side dish to homemade chicken tenders (also from her blog) that were good as well, but I think I have decided that if I'm going to have chicken strips, I'd rather order them than make them at home. I came to the same conclusion after making homemade pasta a couple of weeks ago...it was good, but not good enough to make me want to make it rather than dump dried pasta out of a box into boiling water to go with whatever sauce I'm making. Besides, in our family, the sauce is really what's important, the pasta is just a vehicle to get it to your mouth.

We also tried a new restaurant recently, in Auburn, called Naruto's. It is a Japanese steak house/sushi place that is much more reasonably priced than a lot of the others in town...and it still tastes good. On taste alone I would prefer Julianna Tokyo, but with both taste and value considered, I would definitely choose Naruto's. The workers were also very friendly and described in detail, without being asked, the things we were ordering. Combine that with the fact that we were starving...it was a great experience.