Month 12 day 13: Mac and cheese and bangers mashup

Today I made:
Cheesy Mac n Bangers Normal Sausage Bake, Every Day with Rachael Ray January/February 2012

Rachael Ray likes to experiment in weird ways with food, I guess. She had a bunch of recipes that were mashups between two well-known-but-normally-separate dishes. This was a mix of mac and cheese and ...bangers... which I guess isn't that normal for Americans. And also wasn't available at Shaw's. So... normal sausage.

This was kind of ... meh. There isn't really cheese in the mac and cheese (what.) except cream cheese, which doesn't really count in my book. This is topped with some bread, and I chose a bread that actually tastes pretty bad. Unfortunately, the flavor of that bread was pretty dominant, and it was wedged in in a way that made it hard to remove later. The sausage and spinach was fine, because how could that go wrong? But then the eggy mix that gets poured on top spilled out everywhere, because the bread evidently made somewhat of a water-tight seal. To speed things along, instead of waiting for it to seep through, I just lifted up the corners of the bread and let it drain down into the mac, since I figured that's where it was meant to end up. But I don't know if that's really what was supposed to happen.

The problem with this kind of a mashup dish is that it is then the work of two dishes. But instead of just making a main and a side or something, it's all together in a form that is hit or miss. And this one missed. :-/ It was hard to convince G to help me finish the leftovers of this.

That's it for January! G is back and the semester is about to start up again.
My favorite:
A tie between the tourtiere and the chicken parm

 I've discarded the last of my cooking magazines! From here on out, we'll be dipping into the archives or keeping up with my current subscription of Every Day with Rachael Ray. Over the course of the year, Rachael Ray proved to serve up a variety of creative, quick, and hearty meals that almost always tasted great (with a few exceptions, such as the above). She knows how to please!