Find a recipe for pasta all’amatriciana.
It only contains 6 ingredients guanciale, pecorino cheese, chili, pepper, white wine and tomatoes.
Enjoy and donate $/£/Euro 1 to the Red Cross in support of the relief in Amatrice Italy and the surrounding area.

If you don't can find guanciale at your store (most likely), pancetta could be used instead.

For the macaroni and cheese dinner.

Hmm.

Macaroni and cheese “I’m pretty sure the Americans invented this a long time ago,” says Cesarato. In Italy, however, there are strict rules about which sauces you serve with specific pastas - depending on their texture and shape. Macaroni ('Maccheroni' in Italian), for instance, is typically served with ragù or a tomato sauce. The closest Italian dish to macaroni and cheese that Cesarato can think of is “pasta pasticciata”, where you mix left-over pasta with béchamel and bake it in the oven. “But it’s not the same, and we’d never go out of our way to cook that.”

Well, my grandma did something like that with spaghetti instead...

Spaghetti is easy, there I just need: Meat, Sauce, Spaghetti, and Cheese, I had to buy lots of small ingredients for the macaroni, since this is not the packaged type.

You have not met my brother:)
The only dish when he was young was:
Spaghetti and ketchup.
Later it was:
Macaroni, ready made meatballs and ketchup.
That's easy!

I hope it tastes better than I looks Vic.

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The way my mother taught me to make M&C was much simpler. Cook pasta. Spread a layer in the baking dish. Cover with grated cheese. Grind a bit of pepper over the cheese. Repeat layers, 3 or more (depending on the shape of the dish). Sprinkle minced onion on top layer. Pour milk all over until it comes about 2/3 up the dish. Bake ~30 minutes or until top is brown and crusty.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Lots of oven-baked mac 'n cheese recipes start with a bechamel sauce, which helps ensure that you get a creamy final product. I find this to be a bit more effort than I want to go through for mac 'n cheese, unless I want a do-ahead dish because nieces and nephews are visiting. For those who subscribe, Cook's Illustrated has an excellent stovetop mac 'n cheese recipe. It is quick, relatively inexpensive and delicious, but not low in calories.

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I just made some Pizza tonight.
Bought some frozen Pizza and added some Salami, Cheese and mushrooms.

My wife loved it.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I just made some Pizza tonight.
Bought some frozen Pizza and added some Salami, Cheese and mushrooms.

I see. You skipped the hard part.
Making the dough...
It would be nice if someone could come up to sell pizzadough.
Oh. Someone have.
PizzaKit.
A Pizzakit contains both fresh dough for the pizza base and a classic tomato sauce, seasoned with herbs and sweet onions. The only thing you need to do is to add cheese topping and a few sprinkles of imagination.

The best pizza crust I've had is on a Chicago style pie from Chicago's Gino's East. It's a cornmeal dough of some sort.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I ate reindeer meat on pizza once, in Finland.

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Some years we can get elk, moose, buffalo, and of course venison.
The elk comes in sausage, moose in roasts, and so far I have only
had buffalo burgers. The deer meat comes in roasts, steaks, and
sausage. I am very partial to moose and venison. I have met folks
who have eaten caribou and they all say that it is pretty good.

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I ate reindeer meat on pizza once, in Finland.

I hope Santa wasn't watching. :-)

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I ate reindeer meat on pizza once, in Finland.

Nice. Perhaps it was "Pizza Berlusconi":)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotipizza

Pizza Berlusconi is Kotipizza's name for a pizza of smoked reindeer, with tomato, cheese, chanterelle and red onion.[5]

It was named "Pizza Berlusconi" in summer 2008 after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi had caused a minor diplomatic incident in 2005, when he said that he had had to "endure" Finnish cuisine,[6] and joked disparagingly about Finns eating "marinated reindeer". Although marinated reindeer is a common dish in Lapland, in the rest of Finland the meat is traditionally stewed or dried.[7]

With Pizza Berlusconi, Kotipizza won the America's Plate International pizza contest in New York in March 2008, beating the Italian-Americans, who came in second place, and the Australians in third.[8]

Is this true?
A burger made from plants that actually taste like meat?
Well it looks delicious.

The sights, sounds, smells, textures, and most importantly, flavors – makes meat lovers rejoice.

http://impossiblefoods.com/

Gosh I love the Farmer's Market! I picked up about eight different types of plums and pluots to enjoy this week. There was also a vendor there with a wide variety of dates. Yum!

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Gosh I love the Farmer's Market! I picked up about eight different types of plums and pluots to enjoy this week. There was also a vendor there with a wide variety of dates. Yum!

I wish I could get excited about fruit like that. I like oranges and grapefruit, but that's about it. Good pears and peaches are nice but just not things I gravitate toward. I think I like melons, particularly cantaloupe, more than other types of fruit. And I do like raisins; does that count? ;~)

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

There are very few fruits and vegetables that do not excite me. I go to the Farmer's Market every week I am home to cook. It is one of the highlights of my week. I purchased most of the ingredients for dinner tonight there.

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This is what really turns me off --

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Bleh. His followers are going to be missing micro-nutrients, fiber and the joy of eating.

Food is communal. Food is celebratory. Food is delicious. I do not consider eating an obligation. It is a pleasure!

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All my life I have thought that
it was important to stick to
the basics. Food is a basic.



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A wonderful experience sharing food with others.....

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