Mmm, tasty!

So tonight, Ryan and I hosted a rather spiffy pot-luck sort of dinner. I got home from the Pretty Pretty Princess party (I wore a paper bag and paper crown as the Paper Bag Prince - Apparently everybody loved it, and there are some horrid pictures of me on a few people's cameras) at about quarter after three, hopped in the shower, then spent the rest of the afternoon cooking.

Spaghetti sauce from (almost) scratch was the first to go, which was promptly used to make lasagne (which was a stellar first time ever affair, according to all who partook of it). While the lasagne was baking in the oven, I whipped up a cheese sauce (from scratch for real - mmm, creamy!) and boiled up the elbow noodles, then tossed those together and sprinkled some cheddar over that. As soon as the lasagne was done, I took it out and let it cool a bit, and put the mac 'n' cheese in the oven to bake for ten minutes.

I got nothing but compliments about both of them, which makes me incredibly happy, considering two things: a) I have never, EVER made lasagne before and b) It's been something like three years since I've made mac and cheese from scratch. Yay!

In other trivial news, I bladed home from Barrhaven today, and for the first time ever, had a CD player along with me, so I listened to a mix disc of "Angry music" so to speak. No issues aside from initial low volume making it hard to hear over the wind roar (not from excessive speed, but from a bit of a headwind :P). I found myself at times, striding in time to the music, which was actually kind of neat, but not all that surprising, because I'm exceptionally susceptible to picking up rhythms without realizing it. Needless to say, chances of me blading home to something mellow are slim to nil. Blading to work, maybe, but not blading home. Blading home is far too intense an activity for that *grins*

Many thanks to Heather for hosting the party and the many bodies overnight, and props to Ryan for suggesting the pot luck thing tonight.

(The best part of the pot luck is that I still have half a lasagne and half the mac 'n' cheese left over! Yaaay dinner for the next week or more!)