One of my best memories cooking last summer was an incident with cheeseburger macaroni because it is the perfect example of what dorm cooking is like. It includes:
- subpar ingredients
- bizarre innovation to get those ingredients to work
- massive fail due to panic
Take a look at the photos from that post. The first mistake was improper shaking technique. The bigger one was not removing the excess pepper swiftly and instead diluting our meal with water. It came out really weird.
Since we had ground beef again, I thought I would prove that I had become more skillful from a summer's worth of cooking experience. Here's what I had:
Like most of what i eat, almost all of my vegetables went in. That includes carrots, onions, green bell pepper, and mushrooms. The ground beef is there with peppercorns and black pepper to give it a kick. And that would all be wrapped up with the ground beef in salsa.
I dealt with the base first and cooked and completed my Kraft mac n' cheese before doing anything in the pan.
I was just talking to Julie about mac n' cheese, and I've determined there's just something classically good about Kraft instant mac n' cheese. The ingredients are trash, especially compared to what you can get at a restaurant, but I can't imagine preparing it any other way.
So to make a long story short, it worked. Ground beef browned first with some black pepper, then veggies in next. After those cooked for a bit, the salsa put it all together with the sauce, making this:
Your call whether that looks good or not. All I'm saying is that it was delicious. Dorm cooking can be good if you stay light on the panic.
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