Marlys is soooo lucky, I have access to the vast interweb :>. This allows me to find new and very eclectic recipes for her to make. I say her because my culinary skills tend toward bean and franks, canned hash and so on.
Many of my researched recipes make it into the menu rotation, e.g. bacon pancakes (sans bacon), oatmeal pancakes and the now nationally known spaghetti and meatballs recipe gleaned off the Washington Post. That recipe has even made it to the improvised folks near Buuurmidji, in southern Canada (Minnesota).
Some though are quickly relegated to the "You know you don't need to make this again." category. Marlys even has a few in this group, like the infamous fish burritos, enchiladas, Mexican thing. I can't remember as my subconscious is attempting to block that eating experience.
You can't always hit a home run.
Today, before going to town for provisions (That's what grocery shopping is called that when the nearest grocery store, is a 2 1/2 hour round trip), Marlys had two new recipes on the list for testing, a "Pack-It-In-Pizza Hero" something from Rachael Ray, Marlys candidate, and "The Worlds Best Mac and Cheese" found after extensive research my moi.
A paragraph and a sentence in one, how efficient, except for the "word to comma" ratio, which is way out of whack. 1 is my goal.
The ingredients were extensive, I think...the two I remember was a Pillsbury pressurized pizza dough tube and a +$8 morsel of some type of French cheese.
Marlys was going to make the Mac and Cheese for tonight, ya! She wondered what else should be made with it as a main dish. Obviously, Marlys did not realize Mac and Cheese IS a main dish. I provided education.
Off we went to re-provision (guys don't shop).
On the way home something happened that would change the evening menu.
The Pillsbury Doughboy in the tube, decided to arrive before invited. Bingo, we were having the Racheal Ray thing for the evening repast.
Understand this is not an unusual situation. Ice cream also tends to erupt out of its container as it moves up to 8400'.
Update: Having now partaken of the RR PIIPH, I voted for it to be put into rotation, but Marlys says the putze factor may eliminate it from a recurring role.
Next time you see Marlys ask her about baking at altitude, especially the molasses cookies and the thingies for the last community party. Three attempts and then off to the grocery store to provision something that required no prep, to bad is had something green hitching a ride under the covers.
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