#milchig

Woke up, drank coffee.

Layered dry penne with shredded cheese in oven safe dish.

Poured milk over it as if pouring milk over cereal. Added splash vermouth and some salt.

Added lid, shoved it inna fridge. Left.

Had a day.

Had housemate put in cold oven at 5ish and turn oven on to 350 F. At 5:45, another housemate took off lid so some browning could happen.

Got home at 6 to hot dinner, and happy housemates.

Not bad. Added some garlic and paprika on top, and nuked a veg to go with it.

It's not quite mac and cheese: the sauce isnt creamy. It's more like a savory noodle kugel.

But good. Definitely would make again.

With my new schedule, this is going to be the Year of Abundant Casseroles.

Got one you love that doesn't mix milk and meat?

For frosting, mix cream cheese with fine grained sugar or kosher for passover powdered sugar (I like Gefen), and vanilla, to taste.

Slice manischevitz yellow cake, fresh strawberries, lightly sweetened whipped cream

Loosely adapted from https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/ambrosia-recipe-1950306

Basically left out the maraschino cherries,and added diced apricots instead.

Review: recipe tastes exactly as original, accept for cherries I never really liked anyway. Delicious. Fresh pineapple way better than canned.

Passover chocolate chip pancakes

Mix 1 egg and an eggshell of oil, beat well. Add ½ tsp salt and 1 tbs sugar, and ¼ cup milk. In another bowl, mix together 1 tsp baking powder and 1/3 cup cake meal, then add the dry to the wet ingredients. Mix. If its too thick, add more milk.

Oil a skillet and heat to medium low. Just a bit cooler than you might do regular pancakes. These need to cook just a bit slower. You want to make sure they are cooked through without burning the edges. Also, keep them smallish. They are not as strong as regular pancakes, and need to fully fit on your spatula for flipping.

Pour batter on hot skillet, add chocolate chips. When bubbles start to break on surface of pancake, flip.