Normally I only post a recipe when I've just made the food. Then I give a little anecdote style offering along with the actual recipe (or reasonable facimile of a recipe - this stuff just comes out of my head most of the time). It's sort of like my own Chicken Soup For the Soul. Maybe I should make a category for it: Chicken Soup That Will Melt Your Soul Because Almost All Of The Recipes I Have Are Hotter Than Your Ass Will Be Able To Safely Contain The Next Day or something like that.

I'm going to make an exception to the unwritten "write up the recipe after you've cooked the food" rule this time because I saw Kate's chili recipe and discovered that Sgt. Hook needs my recipe in order to save the blogosphere from the weak-ass nastiness that has so far been submitted to his chili cook off.

DISCLAIMER: I'd already been hankering for some chili lately and tried to find my Death Chili recipe with no luck. There's an actual recipe for this one and it's for a good reason. I tend to be making chili at the same time I am consuming beer. Depending on how much beer I consume the chili will grow to inedible levels of hotness. Even for me, and that's pretty freaking impressive.

Anyway, I can't find the recipe but I'm going to reproduce it here for you from memory. It should be safe as I am currently completely sober (a bit jumped up on coffee but I don't think that'll affect anything except spelling errors). more...

Posted by: Jim at 01:27 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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Oh, lovely, lovely cheese. Everything is better with cheese. Except perhaps ice cream but the verdict is still out on that one.

T'other night Lovely Wife made mac 'a cheese. This is not the blue box dinner I speak of. Such prepared cheese like food product is anathema to the palate. No, I speak of true lucious homemade mac 'a cheese, wherein the macaroni serves merely as a vehicle to carry the delicious and savory cheese.

Why is this news, you ask? Because I am the cheese meister of the household. I am the undisputed champion chef for cheesy goodness of the macaroni variety. My mac 'a cheese is of a world class. Check that. My mac 'a cheese is beyond that. There is no mac 'a cheese anywhere, prepared by anybody, that approaches the cheesy perfection of my dish. Mac 'a cheese is way at the top of my comfort foods list. It's created with love and many years of "touch". I make the hell out of mac 'a cheese.

And Lovely Wife was going to attempt to follow my recipe to duplicate my gastronomical perfection? Let us just say that the recipe is...less than detailed: more...

Posted by: Jim at 11:34 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd in ... erm can't remember the episode name but I would like to thank the 4 year old we look after every saturday for insisting on watching the same Bugs video every single time she comes over and therefore ensuring that every inch of the dialogue is embedded in my skull ...

Posted by: Robert at January 12, 2004 03:47 AM (kXZI6)

2 Can't name the source, but this: Add in 1/4 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese and stir until it is all melted and the sauce has a uniform consistency. Or FONTINA. F-o-n-t-i-n-a. Terrific melting cheese. Like velvet, but better-tasting. Homemade macaroni & cheese makes Kraft look like such a pussy. In fact, it's insulting to good pussy to say that. Okay: It makes Kraft look like a syphilitic transvestite hooker. I take that back. Too insulting to syphilitic transvestite hookers. Just personally, I also think the cheddar cheese should be sharp. That mild stuff is what you put into the kids' tacos. But maybe that's just me.

Posted by: ilyka at January 12, 2004 03:56 AM (0vVpC)

3 Oh, sharp indeed. Very good point there. I didn't think to mention that as I don't really consider mild cheddar to be cheddar. Rob's got it. It follows Bugs saying that only a dirty rat would shoot a guy in the back and Elmer shooting him and saying "Okay, so I'm a dirty rat" after which Bugs pops up with a wedge of cheese and shoves it in his mouth while saying the "have some cheese" line. Possibly my favorite cartoon clip of all time. Points to Rob!

Posted by: Jim at January 12, 2004 04:35 AM (fkewd)

4 Fontina....there it is again.I jusy CAN'T find it here ANYWHERE! Sharp Cheddar is a must,try extra sharp. Kraft is nasty,the kids don't even like it.But get this...OTHER peoples kids don't like the homemade ones and want that Kraft shit. Kill the wabbit!

Posted by: LW at January 12, 2004 07:25 AM (fkewd)

5 Strawberry CHEESE cake icecream !!!!!

Posted by: Linda at January 12, 2004 08:26 AM (3XIYy)

6 Like your Lovely Wife, I too made homemade mac and cheese on Saturday (you can't get the boxed kind here). I don't use cheddar, I use a European white cheddary type one called Heregard or Greve. And I add some gorgonzola, some Dijon mustard, and a dash of nutmeg. I'm telling you, the stuff is better than sex. Seriously.

Posted by: Helen at January 12, 2004 10:28 AM (biCTO)

7 My second-favorite grocery store memory was when I heard some guy asking where to find macaroni and cheese and I told him that macaroni was in aisle six and cheese was in the dairy case on the back wall. He was totally mystified by this.

Posted by: triticale at January 12, 2004 05:50 PM (YmQkS)

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