I filmed a new recipe video for the Mum’s Eye View channel* – Macaroni Cheese! After all of my healthy eating (attempted) changes I thought I deserved a bit of a cheese blow-out, though I did eat three slices of tomato and some leaves on the side, so I’m hoping that’s enough of a nod towards my five a day. Ha!
I had never made macaroni before; it’s one of those dishes, like lasagne, that I shy away from because it involves certain technical processes that are shelved away in my mind as “things only my Mum knows how to do”. Making any kind of sauce, especially if it requires mixing flour with liquids and trying not to let it go lumpy, is very firmly in my “only Mum can do that” category. (Other “things only my Mum knows how to do” include – and this is just a few off the top of my head – using a sewing machine, asking in a shop if you can use their staff loo because you’re desperate, knowing when Easter is, programming the boiler to come on at the right time in the morning and putting those hook things into the top of curtains. (Are properly-made curtains not the most complicated-looking things in the world" That webbing with all of the loops and then the clattery curtain rail and – oh God, I just can’t, it brings me out in hives.) There are loads more: I should do the full list one day.) Anyway, I conquered my fear of flour-mixing and after that, Macaroni Cheese was prett...