French Onion Macaroni and Cheese

erm...so....hiiii.

I'm sorry guys. I know it's been like 2 months since I posted any new recipes for you and I'm seriously sorry-between this whole buying a house thing, various summer activities, and my brother visiting....I've just been sort of insanely busy. And I can't even say it won't happen again. We're still dealing with the house/moving situation (although we're officially going to be in possession of it on Sept. 16th!!) and life is just kinda crazy, ya know? So I'm just going to try not to worry about it and take it one day and one recipe at a time. I hope that's cool?

Cuz I love you guys.

Now-on to food.

I just feeeeel like....onions make everything better? That's my opinion, anyway. They're so darned flavorful and delicious and make everything they're in taste amazing too.

I also want to like french onion soup, for this reason, but for some reason it never really quite works for me. But french onion MAC AND CHEESE? Yeah. That I can get on board with.

And, shockingly, Michael really liked this recipe!! I'm shocked because 99% of the time he's not a huge fan of my macaroni and cheese recipes (he just wants velveeta....*sigh*). But--it's a miracle, he liked this! I loved it! And everyone in the kingdom was happy :D

It's just insanely flavorful macaroni and cheese (don't be scared of the gruyere-it's subtle. But also feel free to sub in a different cheese if you really want) that's creamy and has yummy yummy onions and is topped with buttery toasted breadcrumbs. Yessss.

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Something Saturdays (9/3/16)

Hellooo my friends.

Hey-good news. I actually have a new recipe coming up this week-woo!

Last weekend I had an awesome time working at a wedding that was on a family's personal estate-it was seriously so beautiful and, even though we had some unexpected storms to deal with, it turned out pretty perfect :) And I'm working another wedding today--FUN FUN FUN! Then om Sunday we had another party at my grandma's pool, at which I swam more than I have in yeeears. It was fun, but exhausting! Monday I just hung out with my brother all day, we watched home movies and ran errands and got lunch at Savor. Then we had dinner with our dad and uncle at Royal Docks Brewing Co.  Then I pretty much just hung out with my brother for as long as possible on Wednesday before he left for his base assignment in Hawaii :( I miss him already!

On the house front-got the quote back for some of the changes I want to make to the house aaaand....they were insanely expensive. (I'm talking for cabinets alone it was $7200 for cabinets, $5000 for the labor of removing old cabinets and installing new ones, and +1250 to move the granite that is currently on the old cabinets.....WHAT?) Soooo we're going to hold off on that for a teensy bit of time (although I'm also going to look into 2nd and 3rd opinions) and try to tackle some projects DIY style (currently that includes a tiny bit of work to make the super small mudroom/laundry room a bit more functional, painting the cabinets in the bathrooms, and painting the brick on the outside of the house--although we may end up hiring out on that. Still researching.) We also got the appraisal back and all is good there soooo yay-things are moving forward!