Hi: This is a variation of my mother's Mac & Cheese that she cooked for a family of 10 for many years. The basics are Nan's with a little tweak from me with love.
PASTA:
1 lb elbow or ziti pasta cooked medium in salted water
SAUCE:
4tablespoons butter
4tablespoons flour
6 cups of milk
1 can of chedder cheese soup
8oz. of vermont chedder
8oz. of cream cheese
1 cup if diced tomatoes
dash of salt, pepper, onion powder
TOPPING:
16oz. sharp chedder cheese cut in strips
In a large pan heat the butter to melt and whisk in the flour until mixed throughly. Add the milk and heat while adding the rest of the ingredients stirring each in seperately. Leave the cream cheese till last. Bring the temp up to just below simmer. Do not boil the sauce as it will burn.
Pour the sauce over the drained pasta in a large baking pan with high sides to just below the top. Layer the top with strips of chedder cheese covering completely. Sprinkle with parmesian cheese. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until the top starts to brown. Remove from oven and let sit for 10 minutes.
Hope you enjoy this family favorite of the Brady's
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
How To Handle The Stress Of Selling Your Home
Ok, So You Read All The Online Tips On Selling Your Home, Watched an untold number of real estate shows, followed your realtor's advice to get ready, exhausted yourself over a couple of months getting ready, and your home did not sell quickly like you had hoped. Now What?
The main thing you can do is stay positive. Someone is going to buy your home. You may not get what you had hoped but someone will buy it, believe this. You just need the right buyer. One that will appreciate what you are offering and will enjoy living there as much as you have.
Look at the bright side. Your home now shines, is cleaner and decluttered more than all the time you have lived there, you have fixed all the little things that you have lived with for years, and it looks like a magazine home. Enjoy it. Once it has been cleaned throughly all it takes is a quick pickup and dust mopping to show at a half hours notice.
You get to go out more now during the showings for those little dinners and can go to the dog park with your pet more often. You really appreciate those morning and evenings on the patio now that they are numbered and will miss some of the nicer things your home offered.
When you get down think of the new path you are about to enter on your new life and how exciting it will be. New people, things, and places to explore. Nothing is more fun than exploring a new area. It is like a vacation that goes on for a long time. Me, I think of the look on my wife's face when we were down in our new area and we got blasted by a cool wind coming off the water. It was pure joy and will carry me through any hard times that might pop up during our sale.
A good Attitude and Focus will carry you through. Do Not get down on yourself or your home.
http://www.bradyhometeam.com
The main thing you can do is stay positive. Someone is going to buy your home. You may not get what you had hoped but someone will buy it, believe this. You just need the right buyer. One that will appreciate what you are offering and will enjoy living there as much as you have.
Look at the bright side. Your home now shines, is cleaner and decluttered more than all the time you have lived there, you have fixed all the little things that you have lived with for years, and it looks like a magazine home. Enjoy it. Once it has been cleaned throughly all it takes is a quick pickup and dust mopping to show at a half hours notice.
You get to go out more now during the showings for those little dinners and can go to the dog park with your pet more often. You really appreciate those morning and evenings on the patio now that they are numbered and will miss some of the nicer things your home offered.
When you get down think of the new path you are about to enter on your new life and how exciting it will be. New people, things, and places to explore. Nothing is more fun than exploring a new area. It is like a vacation that goes on for a long time. Me, I think of the look on my wife's face when we were down in our new area and we got blasted by a cool wind coming off the water. It was pure joy and will carry me through any hard times that might pop up during our sale.
A good Attitude and Focus will carry you through. Do Not get down on yourself or your home.
http://www.bradyhometeam.com
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