Broccoli Chicken Mac & Cheese
It’s Friday, it’s Friday!
Even better? Today happens to be the Friday that my good friends, Michelle and David, are getting married!
Between the shower, bachelorette party, small wedding (tonight) and big reception (tomorrow), this week has turned into one mega celebration of the happy couple. Which I’m all for. Because friends as cool as these two, who spent years cultivating cool and thoughtful and inspiring lives while being single into their thirties, who then did the beautiful yet often hard work of merging those full lives together later in life, who have now become one of my favorite couples on earth…deserve to be celebrated in style. Which…our friends just so happen to be mighty good at doing. ;)
One of my lucky jobs for the weekend is playing in the band for the reception, which is a treat because Michelle and David chose a legitimately awesome set list, and the band is a group of dear (and super-talented) friends. And we’ve already had a little too much fun practicing this week for hours, and then (of course) hanging out ridiculously late on a weeknight afterwards catching up over champagne and chips and salsa.
Somewhere in the midst of that conversation, I mentioned that I had just made an epic batch of Broccoli Chicken Mac & Cheese earlier that day, but had writer’s block and couldn’t think of what to write about it other than the fact that it’s delicious. My friend, Rachel, instantly chimed in on the topic and said that there’s only one thing that need be said about broccoli mac and cheese:
It’s what to make when you get that total craving for ooey, gooey, decadent mac and cheese…buuuuuuut feel like you should make it at least a teeny bit healthy. So you toss in some broccoli. And maybe some chicken, if you’re a meat-eater. And then voila — comfort food craving and vegetable quotient satisfied.
Works for me. :)
