• Welcome Back to: That’s Just So Weird Cookbook
• I know you’re tired.
• I know you have picky eaters.
• I know you’re tired of scraping the same old casserole off of the kitchen ceiling. I’m here to help:
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• Magical Macaroni and Cheese Recipe- **********************************************

1. Go to Sam’s Club
2. Buy a case of macaroni and cheese-40
3. Get some Zip-lock bags-40
4. If you don’t like tap water, use bottled water
5. Buy some Aqua-clear, 40 of them
6. I think that that is water, please don’t substitute Aquavit http://www.biderman.com/whatis.htm
7. Get 40 packets of butter from your local deli
8. Get 40 pint-sized cartons of milk
9. Get out AT LEAST 10 pots for boiling water
10. If you don’t have ten; borrow from the neighbor
11. Be sure to turn on the neighbor’s stove when you’re there
12. Start by putting 2 cups of water in each of the cooking pots
13. Each pot of water should be boiling BEFORE you add noodles
14. Run over to the neighbors
15. Go back to #12
16. Come back to your kitchen
17. Repeat your POSITIVE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
18. Something like: This is going to be a good day
19. Seriously, the children should be napping by now
20. When every pot of water is all good and bubbly
21. Start opening boxes, count them, you’ve got 40 boxes
22. Open and pour, open and pour, open and pour
23. You’ve got the rhythm done pat
24. Now, run over to the neighbors, repeat the process
25. Run back, check on the noodles,
26. How is it going?
27. Now, things are going to get tricky
28. Get a suitcase or a laundry basket or a storage tub
29. Get a strainer
30. Pour the noodles that are in the water over the strainer
31. Where is the water going?!
32. Then, pour the hot noodles in a bowl
33. You’ve got 40 bowls, right
34. Now, that things are really humming along…
35. Start opening up the dried cheese packages,
36. You should have 40 packages of dried cheese
37. Throw a butter packet in that you got from the local deli
38. You should have 40 butter packets
39. Throw in a pint-size carton of milk
40. You should have 40 cartons of milk
41. How’d it go?
42. Practice this little ditty:
43. Rip, dump and toss, rip, dump and toss,
44. If the macaroni’s mushy, you’ve got another box….
45. If you didn’t like using a suitcase, cross it off the list
46. I know that you are just returning from the neighbors
47. Hopefully, the suitcases were old and worn out
48. Check your to-do list:
49. All the water is gone
50. The noodles are in the bowls
51. You have ripped, dumped and stirred in packages of dried cheese
52. You have flipped packets of butter in,
53. You have opened and tossed in pint-sized containers of milk
54. Now, get 40 cans of vegetables and cream of something soups
55. Get your can opener and your neighbor’s can opener
56. Practice this little ditty:
57. 40 cans of veggies,
58. 40 bowls of noodles,
59. 40 hours of cooking,
60. 40 types of foo-dles
61. Toss, the 40 cans of veggies and/or soups into each of the 40 bowls of noodles and get this over with…
62. This isn’t funny anymore.
63. Be sure to mark and label the bags before you store them
64. Practice this line:
65. If you liked this________________
66. You’ll love____________________________.
67. Insert something like “macaroni cheese and asparagus”in the first line of #65
68. Insert something like “macaroni cheese and spinach”in the next line- line #66
69. This is a surefire way to get those cute little kids eating and growing and…
70. Your hubby isn’t going to complain about “one more casserole” again, is he
71. “Sorry, honey, it’s macaroni and cheese and veggies, tonight!”
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