I was faced with a meal I hadn’t planned for. I almost caved and just took the kids out to a restaurant, but we had just been out the previous day. I decided to go home and see what I could invent from what I had on hand. Here it is. Micah liked it and Hannah wouldn’t touch it (which is normal for pretty much anything). I didn’t measure anything so I’ll just describe.
I had some leftover cooked macaroni noodles (brown rice noodles) in the freezer. I defrosted them. I made up a white sauce with butter, flour, milk, and small amount of cheddar and gruyere cheese. Before adding the flour to the butter I sauted a small minced garlic clove in it. I made this sauce thinner than my macaroni and cheese sauce. It was more like a light cream sauce. I added a little salt, pepper, and paprika.
I took a small can of salmon (half the size of the 15oz ones) and used a fork to break off small pieces of salmon into the sauce. I dumped the defrosted macaroni into the sauce, and that’s it. I quite liked it.
Some nice additions to this dish might be asparagus and/or shrimp.
That sounds quite good to me. I agree that shrimp would likely go well. One of my favorites is “macaroni cheese burger”, which is just macaroni and cheese with some burger meat added. However, we haven’t had this in quite some time because my daughter didn’t like it and I try to minimize the refined carbs (my wife makes it with plain macaroni – she doesn’t like the whole-wheat kind). But I still would enjoy eating it once in a while
Hi Brian,
I managed to wander by your site and I love it! I was hoping you don’t mind replying to this comment on your old post – I need to ask about your white sauce – What is the proportion of the butter, flour, milk you used?
I’m nowhere near a whiz at making my own sauces – All I know is that they come out of a can. So if you could, I would really appreciate it if you can share a few recipes for simple sauces, and the usual proportions used.
Thanks in advanced!
Regards
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Jenx
(P.S.: Tried making the beef & barley soup in your 2007 entry… Was quite proud of it
Jennifer,
Try this video. The whole site is a wealth of great directional videos.
http://www.harvesteating.com/public/709.cfm