Noodles n' cheese

You want easy dinners? Here is one that is about as easy as it gets. I mostly use this meal as a vessel for loads of feta. All you do is cook up some noodles, whatever kind you have in the pantry. Then I saute some onions and garlic in olive oil till soft, put the cooked noodles in with it, add garlic powder, tons of Italian seasoning, some butter and more olive oil, and that's it! Then I load my bowl with the noodles and tons of parmesean and feta. MMMMMMM cheese! Fast, simple and yummy.

The great ricotta experiment

At lunchtime the other day, I was looking through the fridge for something to eat. I didn't find any sort of complete meal, just bits. I decided to try something inventive. I had half a tub of leftover ricotta, some plain cooked noodles, part of an onion and part of a can of tomato sauce that we use as pizza sauce. I sauteed the onion and some garlic in oil, added a few spoonfuls of ricotta, mixed in the noodles and cooked it together for a couple of minutes. It kind of looked odd, so I decided to put in the tomato sauce too. The result wasn't the greatest thing I've ever made, but it was pretty good. And better than just wasting the rest of the ricotta. I don't know what else to use it for besides lasagna type of meals.

Raw Cheese

Whenever we are at Vitamin Cottage, I look at the selection of raw cheeses. For some reason, I have decided that these cheeses are probably amazing. Alas, they are also expensive, so we have left them to our imagination. A couple of weeks ago, it was my birthday. My husband, correctly so, decided that a good present would be a fun kit of different teas, cookies, crackers, chocolates, and... the cheese! He got me two different kinds to try, one a hard cheddar, and the other a soft cheddar spread. Cheddar is totally my favorite. So I made each of us some samples and we had a taste test. Raw cheese, it turns out, tastes way better than pasteurized cheese. I don't know why exactly, maybe you can taste more of the subtle things that might be otherwise killed. All I know is this cheese has spoiled me into wishing it was the only cheese I ever got to eat. We will be sure to get it for special occasions here and there, but unfortunately, it can't be our go-to thing.