Too Tired To Go To The Grocery Store

I couldn't wait to get home today!  This cold is really dragging on.  Anyway, I didn't want to stop at the grocery store to get ingredients, so I hoped there would be enough in the fridge and pantry to whip something up. 
I browned up some ground beef with my four favourite spices - garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper and celery seed.  Celery seed adds such a wonderful flavour to the meat.  I always use it in ground beef no matter what I'm going to use the beef for. 
There were some great cheeses in the fridge, so I decided to make a smoky gouda cheeseburger macaroni casserole. I made a cheese sauce with low fat old cheddar, low fat fruilano, parmesan, and smoky gouda.  What an rich flavour the smoky gouda added - it sort of tasted like bacon was in the sauce.  My cheese sauce has Kuhne's hot mustard in it - just put it in and don't ask why! This mustard is not hot, but the flavour is necessary.
So, I cooked up some Molisano small size rigatonis and mixed the sauce and ground beef together in a pot. I poured it into the casserole dish that was sprayed with cooking spray.  All the ingredients were hot so I only baked it in the oven, uncovered for about 20 minutes at 375 using the convection oven setting.
As usual, I had never made this before, so I tasted during the preparation and was not hungry when it finally came out of the oven.  G was starving - it was approaching 7pm, which is sort of late for us to eat! I tried to make a video, but I learned that I need someone else with me to film while I do the cooking. 
When I put the serving spoon into the middle of the casserole and scooped out a spoonful, it made that cool pasta saucy sound and the cheese stretched across to G's plate. WAY TO GO CHEESE!
G loved this dish and I suggested he add some ketchup - it worked!
Mac & Cheese doesn't have to be so rich with high fat cheeses.  I even used 1 % milk when making the sauce.  Also, the spices are important when you are using low fat ingredients.  They really punch up the flavour - don't forget the celery seed in the meat and the mustard in the cheese sauce - drop in some hot sauce too!  Oh, and sprinkle a little paprika on the top before baking - it makes the top of the casserole that pretty orangey colour!
Remember, when someone cooks for you, it's with love.