Macaroni Thursday

I was supposed to go to the gym on Thursday but it was freezing cold and all I wanted to do when I got home was cook some stodgy food and curl up on the sofa.  I decided to go for macaroni cheese, with some salad to make it a little healthier, and I needed to put some kind of meat in it (for Mr W) so went for bacon.

I made a cheese sauce with butter, flour, dijon, gruyere and nutmeg and fried some bacon until crisp.  I fried some onions in the bacon fat and added those, and cooked the macaroni.  I mixed it all in together, covered it in grated parmesan, and baked it for about half an hour at 200 degrees.  I put some sliced tomato on top before baking and added chopped parsley before serving. 

It was pretty special, even if I do say so myself ;)  Mr W and I both had the leftovers for lunch the next day at work.