A domestic miscellany

Home oeconomics: the science of managing a household. This is my domestic journal, an intermittent record of recipes, home improvements, and textile crafts.
Posts tagged "cheese"
Sage, apple, and cheddar omelette

Sage, apple, and cheddar omelette

Is this weird? It’s what called to me in the kitchen today, when I staggered in there hungry but feeling sick and unhappy from out-of-control seasonal allergies. 1/3 fuji apple, thinly sliced a few thin slices of red onion butter 3 eggs handful grated cheddar sprig of parsley, minced a few sage leaves, minced pepper...

My take on cauliflower cheese

I could have sworn I’d blogged this before, but my tags say not. (ETA: apparently I did, but mis-spelled cauliflower in the tags. *headdesk*) When I was a kid we used to have this dish called cauliflower cheese that was basically cauliflower swamped in a roux-based cheese sauce, with extra cheese on top, then baked....

Lasagna recipe

Crossposted from this old LJ post so I have my recipes in one place on oeconomist.infotrope.net. Carol at work asked for my lasagna recipe, and since I’m typing it up I figured I’d post it here. It all starts with my generic spaghetti sauce. The following makes an enormous batch that will serve for much...

No-roux cauliflower cheese

The cauliflower cheese of my childhood had the florets drowning in a bucketful of cheesey sauce, made with a roux of flour and butter, then milk, then cheese. Yum, and yet — a pain in the arse. Especially when there’s no fresh milk in the house (let’s not talk about the state of what’s in...