The Rodeo

I have been asked by Kim and Jason to take part in their Adultitis Escape Plan, a 40-day plan to become more childlike (not childish)
and to reduce stress and prevent dullness, depression and [insert
another word beginning with ‘d’ here]. Of course I’m gonna do it.

Dreary-ness, that begins with ‘D’.

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The thirty-seventh task: Eat or drink something today that brings back childhood memories.

I used to eat tuna noodles two or three times a week when I was still living with my parents, it was all my youngest sister and I cooked. It’s very yummy, and now Mat loves it too. Dinner tonight (and fairly frequently still) was this fantastic dish. Here is the recipe.

Tuna Noodles:

1. Start boiling some water (for the noodle part).

2. Turn on the heat under another saucepan, you want it to be about half-heat.
3. Whack a tablespoon or so of butter in the saucepan and let it melt a little.
4. While the butter is starting to melt, go find some flour and throw about a heaped tablespoon into the butter.
5. Mix these up.
6. Open a can of tuna in brine (NOT oil, springwater would probably work too, but it would taste terrible) - I normally use a 500g can. Toss the entire contents of this can into the mix (yes, with the brine).

7. If the water is boiling, chuck some noodles in there, if not, wait till it is and then do it. I like macaroni best, but this is good with most types of noodle.

8. Mix the sauce, adding milk till it’s runny, but not super wet (I normally just drop a half-cup or so of milk in at a time). If you have any cream or sour-cream in the fridge, throw it in now.
9. Grate some cheese - I normally grate about half a block of cheese, so about half a kilo worth. Chuck the cheese in too, leaving a small amount out to stick on top when it’s finished.
10. Keep adding milk so the sauce is a little runny (but still pretty thick), while the noodles cook.

11. When the noodles are ready, drain them.

12. Get a packet of french-onion soup mix, add some of that in (I find the no-name brands taste much better than the expensive ones for this, they make worse soup, but better condiments :)).
13. Add some more cheese.
14. Serve the noodles with sauce, adding some grated cheese on top, along with a bit more soup mix.

14a. If you want to make this a bit more fancy, chuck it in a casserole dish and cover the top with cheese. Stick it under the grill until it goes golden-brown. Then eat it.

RodeoClown: eats this a lot.

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