Mac n Cheese Mondays: Manchego

Last night was our usual Monday trip to the Monoprix, which is the Paris version of a Super Walmart, but on a smaller scale. They have general stuff like mittens, bath needs and lipstick on the street level. Food is one floor down. They had been remodeling the place and they must have torn out the meat freezers because there was this big open hole in the floor, full of nasty pipes and nastier water. The entire place stank like a wrecked bathroom, and they were still open for business, shoppers everywhere. Pretty nasty ya'll.

Anyways, after that little story, let me tell you about our Mac and Cheese experiment from last night. We had it with brussels sprouts on the side and those were about the best brussels I've had ever. I think they were even better than the Mac, which was also damn good. We used probably 1.5 - 2 cups of grated Manchego, 1 sauteed shallot with mixed herbs, greek olives with some other kind of cheese in them (they were labeled fromolives or something like that, for frommage). Lots of salt and pepper, and then bread crumbs on top. Baked for 20 minutes I think. I don't know why we never thought to do this in the states. Manchego did make someone's Cheese of the Month page.