Dinner Feb. 12th 2011 - Gratinated Pasta

So, it's time for the dinner post. Today I landed on gratinated pasta with a cream cheese sauce and smoked ham, sprinkled with a bit of mozzarella  It's quite simple to make (which is usually an important aspect) and tasted good (also always a positive thing with dinners). The steps to make dinner this dinner was:

• 15 minute walk to the store.
• 20 minutes aimlessly walking around the store while figuring out what I wanted for dinner.
• Picked up what I wanted and a pack of hotdogs + buns.
• Made hotdog for dinner and waited a few days with the gratinated pasta.

The above steps should be considered optional, but they're quite common when it comes to my cooking. It's just how things usually go when you're a lazy ass.

Anyway, the actual making of tonight's dinner went like this:

Ingredients:

How to make:

1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.
2. Find an oven dish and follow instructions on pack of gratinated pasta. It's numbered, so if you can't do this, you should not be living alone.
3. Sprinkle cheese on top. How much depends on how much cheese you want. Remember, you're free, no need to follow numbers for everything.
4. Put the oven dish in to the oven (make sure it's actually heated up to 200 degrees first though)
5. Sit down with coffee + cigarettes and listen to music for 40-50 minutes.
6. Take oven dish out of the oven (some mittens could be a good idea for this one).
7. Put as much as you want on a plate.
8. Eat.

And that's it actually! Now, for some pictures to show you how it all turns out.

First, this is what it looked like coming out of the oven:

 

Then we have one after getting a satisfactory amount on to the plate:

And that was it for today's dinner actually. Pretty much the effort a lazy ass husband living alone could be bothered with today. Simple to make, apart from a minor problem of protecting the food from a monster. Now, this should be considered a very local issue, but if you see this, you could be in for some trouble getting your food to the table without being tripped on the way:

 

Just a warning from a concerned lazy guy.