Eavesdropping Macaroni & Cheese

Macaroni and cheese, always a welcome meal at our house. My recipes have evolved over the years. I originally started making my mother's recipe (straight off the Mueller's box) of cheddar cheese, milk, flour. ground mustard, etc. Then, two years ago I was turned onto Martha Stewart's version by my BBBF Anne. She uses an enormous amount of cheese(white cheddar and Gruyere), milk, flour, etc and it is delicious. Those two are both baked, but today, we have Alice's cheddar cheese, ricotta, heavy cream, white wine, no bake mac and cheese. Alice's note under the recipe says  "Youcan't go wrong with this dish" - and maybe in her crazy mixed-up baked bean sandwich world that's true. But not in mine.

Episode Note: "The Private Ear" Yet another problem with snooping, this time it is Peter. Marcia confides in Jan about her new love and swears her to secrecy. What they don't know is that Peter is surreptitiously recording the "private" conversations of everyone in the house, including theirs. He uses his inside info to pretend that Jan spilled the beans, and Marcia accuses Jan of telling about you know who, and you know what, and now it will be all over you know where.  A similar distrust emerges between Greg and Marcia and then Bobby and Cindy, each time being the odd-man out with the inside scoop. Mike and Carol quickly catch on and confront him, lecturing that secretly tape recording people's conversations (popular in the 70s) can be a criminal act. Peter is forced to come clean and apologize to his sibling, leaving Greg and Marcia dismayed by the leniency of the punishment. They decide to get revenge by planting a phony recording of them discussing a surprise party being planned for Peter. Peter falls for it hook, line and sinker and proceeds to drop hints about potential presents. Then, Mike and Carol get wind of that plot and have a plan of their own to foil Greg and Marcia's - a real party for Peter. How this makes for good parenting, I do not know.They even give him a tape recorder of his very own, teaching him that crime does apparently pay.