recent cooking adventures

My macaroni and cheese waiting to go into the much prettier platter.

My mac and cheese waiting for the oven to heat up.

My finished macaroni and cheese!

I added in to the directions to preheat the oven. It wasn't in the original directions so when I got to the "put it in the oven" step I had to wait for the oven to heat up. At least, hopefully, I won't make that mistake twice.
*Note: I made Mama's Mac and Cheese. I will try the other mac and cheese version later

My George Forman Grill/current guy in my life

The seasoning I used for my pork chops. I got way overzealous with this stuff. After I had used a lot of it I thought to call mom and ask how much I should use. She said to sprinkle it on like it was salt. I had sprinkled WAY too much.

See way to much seasoning

My finished pork chops. They were a bit messy due to my overzealous spicy self.

Mom told me to try to scrape off as much of the seasoning as I could, which I did. It still left the meat really spicy. Oh, well. I lived. I learned.

My Jordan Cinnamon Love Knots courtesy of Christy Jordan lovely author of the Southern Plate website! I really want to meet her. I might just start stalking the grocery stores trying to find her. She lives here in Madison! I was very proud of myself for making these. It is a yeast bread which had made me nervous, but I crossed my fingers, said a prayer, and did my best. It worked!

A close up of my Jordan Cinnamon Love Knots