Recipe: Macaroni and cheese with cauliflower
Source: Real Simple Magazine Feb. 2009
[Rating: 1/5]

Sometimes our attempts to do something healthy for ourselves backfires, as was the case last week, when I followed a recipe from my beloved real simple magazine.

I love macaroni and cheese. Velveeta and shells. Kraft cheese and macaroni dinner. Annies organic macaroni and cheese. Easy Mac. I <3 it.

So, when my beloved wrote an article about how to make your favorite comfort foods more healthy, I jumped at the chance. I followed their recipe for a cauliflower macaroni and cheese, and I don’t HATE cauliflower, so… that part didn’t really turn me off. And I’m not a chef, so by reading the recipe, I didn’t realize just how horrible it would be.

The recipe ended up calling for a mere 6 oz of cheese. (pathetic)

grating the fail.

a head of cauliflower.

chopping the fail

whole grain pasta. (which alone, is definitely not a fail.)

draining the fail.

a WHOLE ONION and a cup and a half of sour cream.

mixing the fail

topped with a solid inch of breadcrumbs

fail in the oven.

luckily, this travesty shared the plate with some delish veggie/soy nuggets.

culmination of epic fail.

Perhaps, if I’d been trying to make a cauliflower and onion noodle casserole, I’d have been quite pleased. But I think, if I’m looking for an uncommon splurge, I’ll make some whole wheat elbows, and use a serving of velveeta, and forgive myself in the morning.

For the masochists out there, (and for my friends, with jacked up taste buds who may LIKE this recipe, I will link to the recipe. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.

[rating: 1/5]