Happy Halloween everyone. I hope you all are having a good Halloween. I thought about writing a piece about some cool spooky Halloween kind of dish. I came up with the idea of making a meatloaf into the shape of a hand or a foot or something. Then I came across the Not Martha website. This is a cool looking meatloaf and my wife and I thought it would be fun to make one of these the next time we get the whole family together so I am now on the hunt for a hand shaped mold. So now that the meatloaf body part has already been perfected by someone else I decided to go with my original idea and give you my lasagna recipe instead.

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So here’s the thing: originally, I was going to write up a post about the gazillion and one things you can do with cheddar cheese. But I kind of felt like I would be telling you guys things you already know, and so, why bother? Then we introduced this awesome new feature, Outside the Box, all about making things from scratch instead of buying that pre-packaged junk at the store, and I realized there’s really only one thing you need to do with your cheddar cheese, which is, make macaroni and cheese.

See, Portuguese people (because in case you didn’t know already, I live in Portugal) don’t appreciate cheese that isn’t Portuguese. Which is all well and good for them, but for me it sucks because cheddar cheese is hard to find, and expensive. Well, it was, because I recently stumbled upon a ridiculous bargain at a grocery store I normally never go to: white organic English farmhouse cheddar, on sale for 99 cents per brick because like I said, Portuguese people just don’t appreciate the stuff, so it was nearing the expiration date (when everyone knows that cheese doesn’t just go bad).

Being the shameless individual that I am, I now have nearly three kilos of cheddar cheese sitting in my freezer, and I’m ridiculously happy about that, because one of my favorite go-to meals is homemade macaroni and cheese. Read the rest of this entry »