Mac n Cheese Night!

Last night I made dinner for my friends Ian and Stacie pictured above. Ian has a strong love of my homemade mac n cheese so for X-mas I gave him a coupon for a pan of it. We ran into Stacie the evening prior as we were out on a man date and we invited her as well.

Good company and good food were the highlights of the evening. I had to make two pans of pasta, as Stacie is a vegetarian. In the Ian batch I started with pancetta and both had Herkimer county cheddar, Manchego, and Boursin in the Béchamel (read “cheese sauce”). We also had fresh brussel sprouts in brown butter (a new experience for Stacie) as well as red grapes and we finished the meal with cream puffs from Dorothy Lane (cream puffs FOR cream puffs!) As you can see from the photographic evidence, a good time was had by all!