Okay, so last night there was this ham ...

A gigantic, gorgeous ham served with boiled potatoes and green beans with what looked like mushrooms and almonds in them (I didn't see them being made so I can't be sure). We put the ham in the over at 300 (I think) and pretty much left it there all day. A little longer than we should have actually or meant to, we got to setting at John's house and didn't make it back in time. Anyway, this is not the real subject of the post because that's a pretty straightforward meal.

Tonight we had macaroni and cheese like I've never had before. From what I could gather, this is how it went:

6 cups cooked macaroni
1 chopped onion
1/2 each green and red pepper, cut into short strips
1/2 cup each green beans and peas (I think you could probably use frozen)
1 1/2-2 c shredded cheddar
1 big honking pile of ham cut into big chunks with lots of little flakey bits that have bits of heel on them

Cook the macaroni, if you haven't already. Saute the onion and add some garlic if you want (she might have, I didn't see it), add the peppers and cook till onions are translucent. Add the other vegetables and then stir all of it together into a big dutch oven. Throw the lid on and put it in the over until you figure it's done.

It was actually really good. I think if I was going to try to do it at home, I would probably do a bechemel sauce and add the cheese to that before I stirred it all together. The ham... was divine.

Oh yeah, subtract 2 hours from my post time for Willow River time, I'm actually trying not to adjust too much.