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We had brunch at our friends’ house this Sunday to celebrate Thanksgiving.  They usually have Thanksgiving Dinner with us but this year they will visit their daughter in Chicago and have their Thanksgiving there.  Long story made short…we did the usual brunch thing; overate.  Around 6:30 P.M. we decided we should have something to eat but just didn’t know what that something was.  I finally came up with Fettuccine Alfredo, quick, easy and good.

I need to step back for a minute and vent about that stuff they call grated cheese in the round, cardboard container on your grocery shelf.  Growing up my father always had an old mayonnaise jar in the frig filled with grated cheese.  Now this ethwas way before food processors so it meant that he would grate the cheese himself; using the old fashion box grater, you know  pyramid shaped grater.  He would sit down and fill that jar about once a month with fresh grated cheese.  Today we can get fresh grated hard cheeses in our local groceries, or we can pop a chunk in our food processors and have that fresh, grated cheese to add to whatever we think would benefit from it.  If you are buying the green, cardboard cylinder of grated cheese please stop; buy your family a little of the fresh grated cheese or try and grate a little yourself; a micro plane works very well for this.  Taste a little of your old container of cheese and then taste the fresh grated; I know you will see the difference.

As a post script I offer a suggestion: try sprinkling a little of the fresh grated cheese over your salads, you will be surprised at how much the little bit of cheese adds to the the flavor of the salad.

Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!

Fettucini Alfredo

Beat egg with cream. Melt butter. Pour both over cooked, drained, hot fettuccini, add grated cheese. Toss and serve.