Just curious who had corned beef and cabbage served at their house last week? The photo on the left is actually from last March (2013.) This year I elected to make corned beef hash (see below) and served it with poached eggs for breakfast. Why? Because IMHO it has some FLAVOR that way!
Since a few of my classes will get an extra meeting this rotation, and the 8th graders don't need to "Make Your Own Smoothie" three years in a row, I decided to create a new recipe for several of my classes. Over the weekend, I tried four different Macaroni and Cheese recipes, which my husband and son quite enjoyed! I figured, this can really be both nutritious and delicious, and it requires students to demonstrate a number of important skills. Nearly all recipes required baking for 30 minutes after blending the homemade cheese sauce with the macaroni. Since classes are not long enough for all the preparation and baking, I decided to just leave out the baking step and serve it right from the saucepan. Fail. Bad idea. I had actually tried this as option #4 at home, to which my family said, "Umm, not as good as the others." I should have paid closer attention to their feedback!
I tried it first with today's 8th graders, because I felt they were best able to manage all the steps without burning the milk. They succeeded beautifully, which made me feel even worse that the taste was not that great. If I were 14, I would have preferred processed cheese food. My fix for this will be to pre-cook the macaroni for the next class (6th graders on Thursday) so that they will just prepare the cheese sauce and can bake the mac and cheese in the oven as it should be. I should have known better than to try to short-cut a great thing! Many great successes began first as failures, which forced someone to come up with a better way. I am confident I will find the perfect mac and cheese for consumer science class! If you have prepared no-bake mac and cheese and found it amazing, please share your recipe here! |
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