Having flunked the day before, which should have been a veggie day, as reported at reference 1, we made up, in part at least, by macaroni cheese. Cooked by myself, which gave me control of the recipe.
It turned out that we had at least three of them to serve as a starting point.
From which I actually proceeded as follows.
Gently fry one clove of garlic, finely chopped, in 2oz butter. Before it goes brown, add two medium onions, rather less finely chopped. Cook gently until soft and then stir in 2oz plain flour. Cook for a bit.
Cook 8oz of penne in plenty of water.
Turn the roux into white sauce using half a pint of (green top) milk and half a pint of the water used to cook the penne.
Stir in 6oz of grated cheese, the cooking cheese from Sainsbury's rather than the fancy stuff that I buy in London. Not that, as I recall, using the fancy stuff makes much difference. All tastes much the same when it is cooked and hot.
Stir in the penne. Transfer to baking dish a cook for 40 minutes at 200°C. Serve with French beans, very probably from somewhere in north or east Africa.
All done at the one sitting. Not exactly a slimming meal, or even a very healthy meal for more or less sedentary pensioners, but it did the job. I find neat macaroni cheese a bit much, and adding the onions give it a bit of texture and flavour. One could also add chopped ham, but that is leaving the veggie domain, half the point on this particular occasion.
Only one plum left, but that was OK as I was fairly full by this point. Almost certainly a foreign plum, but no idea now where it might have come from. BH had to make do with banana, ice cream and maple syrup
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/04/to-temple.html.
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