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I came home from work a little bit late this evening, but I did not fall into a pit of despair, for there were LEFTOVERS IN THE FRIDGE from yesterday's cauliflower and cheese adventure. I don't know if I mentioned that I'd added frozen peas and mixed petite vegetables at the end of yesterday's cooking adventure, but I did. It was still (salty and) bland, but the formerly frozen vegetables did add some texture and flavor that was missing from the recipe, but not nearly enough.
Today I took the leftovers out of the fridge and added a few things: about 3/4 cup of nonfat milk, which thinned the sauce to an acceptable level, half of a bag of frozen cauliflower (the smaller pieces were better than the large-ish ones from the Costco bag), and a can of tuna. The milk and extra cauliflower cut the saltiness of the sauce, while the tuna added some much-needed flavor (ok and probably a lot of salt, too, but it tasted so much better today).
I definitely won't make this recipe again as written, even without the salt. I like the idea, but the execution isn't for me. I'm not the type to plan meals that far ahead, because when I actually recognize that I'm hungry, I'm about ten minutes away from becoming hangry. I would, however, make a from-scratch cheese sauce (I'd have to look up Alton Brown's macaroni and cheese recipe for one) or if I was really going to plan ahead, I'd have to break down the inertia and actually put the powdered cheese stuff from Amazon in my cart. And then buy it.
Today I took the leftovers out of the fridge and added a few things: about 3/4 cup of nonfat milk, which thinned the sauce to an acceptable level, half of a bag of frozen cauliflower (the smaller pieces were better than the large-ish ones from the Costco bag), and a can of tuna. The milk and extra cauliflower cut the saltiness of the sauce, while the tuna added some much-needed flavor (ok and probably a lot of salt, too, but it tasted so much better today).
I definitely won't make this recipe again as written, even without the salt. I like the idea, but the execution isn't for me. I'm not the type to plan meals that far ahead, because when I actually recognize that I'm hungry, I'm about ten minutes away from becoming hangry. I would, however, make a from-scratch cheese sauce (I'd have to look up Alton Brown's macaroni and cheese recipe for one) or if I was really going to plan ahead, I'd have to break down the inertia and actually put the powdered cheese stuff from Amazon in my cart. And then buy it.
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