It's now 11 days into November, so Mission: Put Together is, um, over. Or something.
I'm pretty disappointed in myself. I had the best of intentions for this installment of M:PT, but I honestly just don't know where they went. I woke up most mornings late, as usual, and with zero motivation to put together a cute outfit. And then! Then, when I did have something post-worth on, I'd forget to take a picture of it. I think I posted a total of about five or six photos during the entire month -- I'm not going to look because I'm afraid I'll find out it was even less than that -- and I was similarly negligent in checking the pool. I can't even bring myself to make a wrap-up mosaic right now. Sorry, M:PT. It surely wasn't you; it was all me. Let's blame it on the tragic end of yet another year of Daylight Savings, OK?
Speaking of photo pools that I shamefully neglected, it's really too bad that Whip It Up! is over because last night I invented a new recipe. Oh, it's nothing fancy: just a simple dish I like to call Macaroni Reduction. All you need to do is accidentally add five times the amount of milk called for by the recipe on the box (dude, 1/4 cup and 1 1/4 cup look pretty damn similar), and then you boil the whole thing down until the extra milk has burned off. You can also dump some in the sink if you're impatient. It's just a little something I whipped up last night on the fly. Enjoy!
(It takes real talent to ruin boxed Mac 'N Cheese. Shouldn't I win some sort of award or something?)
I have ruined boxed mac and cheese more times than I'd care to admit. You're not alone!
Posted by: nancypearlwannabe | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 02:48 PM
I have made milk reduction before, but with water and Easy Mac, in my college microwave. Mm, cheese water with noodles.
Posted by: RA | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I remember making mac and cheese reduction in a tea kettle and draining it in a water fountain when i was in college. Delicious.
And if you want ruination, you should have had some of the leek sputum soup Simons made the other day. I asked him to make vichysoise (I can't freaking spell that) while I went running, and instead, I came home to this horrific sulphuric miasma. And as it was inedible, he did as men are wont to do instead of cleaning up their messes, and set it on the back of the stove for me to find three days later after it had FERMENTED.
Are you SURE you want to get married?
Posted by: Jemima | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I did that once, but...I was drunk.
I then proceeded to get in bed with a bowl of mac and cheese soup and go to sleep. My partner loved me for that!
Posted by: Laura | Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 02:28 PM
This is sooo something I would do! LOL
Also, I bought my Twilight ticket on Fandango today!
Posted by: Lindsey | Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10:50 PM
My girlfriend made mac n' cheese in highschool and managed to turn the whole thing into a clump of charred black goo. You're doing okay with your extra milk, I assure you.
Posted by: Courtney | Monday, November 17, 2008 at 09:44 PM
We've all been there. I once ruined a double batch of cookies by using the 1/2 cup measure instead of the 1 cup. Gooey, nasty mess anyone?
PS I love the color of your kitchen! I want a blue just like that.
Posted by: Celia | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM
M:PT got away from me also... and I really wanted to do well this go around.
Oh well.
Also- I usually eff up mac and cheese.... So no worries
Posted by: Julie | Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 08:24 PM