Mac & Cheese

[beaufort-fj60]

please share your mac & cheese recipes...

I've tried a few... boil mac, drain, add cheese & milk, reduce in oven recipes.. but I cannot get that cheesy flavor of the box kit. How do you make it super cheesy? powdered cheese flavor?

 

['74 UA FJ]

What. The. Fxxx.

You cannot make mac and cheese as good as the boxed s***? That s*** is nasty after you've had the real deal.

You gotta have a good layer of cheese on top.




So your wife sits around barefoot, pregnant and eating bon bons while you do all the "working" and all the cooking. You are the man.

 

[retrofive]

Velveeta!

Actually I used to have a good recipe from an ex. I'll see if I still have it. I dont recall the cheeses used, it was more like a casserole TBH.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

What. The. Fxxx.

You cannot make mac and cheese as good as the boxed s***? That s*** is nasty after you've had the real deal.

You gotta have a good layer of cheese on top.

So your wife sits around barefoot, pregnant and eating bon bons while you do all the "working" and all the cooking. You are the man.

great recipe, thanks.

 

[fsusteve]

I'd like to see a real home-made recipe too, I realize they're on the web but who's got a winner?

 

[beaufort-fj60]

the rug rats love the stuff and I've tried about 15 recipes off the interweds... I wasn't impressed with any of them. They just don't have that cheesy feeling.

 

['74 UA FJ]

Kids like that box s***. You have to be a little older to appreciate the real stuff. I don't have a recipe. I would ask my mom, who makes the best mac and cheese in the world, but I really don't feel like expending that much effort for you.

 

[agomez]

what a dick.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

what a dick.

yeah, all he needs to do is yell upstairs from the basement and ask. I'm sure she's just ironing his jeans or something.

 

['74 UA FJ]

I'll see if I can remember to ask her over the weekend.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

thanks....

 

[Joe_E]

If you could somehow harness about a cup of Dorito powder (original red bag), bet that would be a kick ass mac-n-chee.

 

[Atticus]

I don't really follow a recipe, but it's pretty simple. The secret is to make a cheese sauce (I like to use sharp white cheddar cheese), and not just mix all the stuff together in the baking dish.

Boil macaroni in heavily salted water.
Melt as much cheese into as little milk as you can with a bunch of butter until you have enough sauce. If you want more flavor, make a light roux for the cheese sauce first.
Put macaroni in greased baking dish.
Add sauce.
Cover macaroni in thick layer of shredded cheese and bread crumbs, or just shredded cheese if you don't like bread crumbs.
No eggs. They are the worst in mac and cheese.
Cook until the top is nice and brown. Don't overcook, or the sauce starts to separate and it just gets really greasy.

No big deal. If you want that fake cheesiness, you need to use cheese sauce or a cheese blend like Velveeta.

 

[retrofive]

I don't really follow a recipe, but it's pretty simple. The secret is to make a cheese sauce (I like to use sharp white cheddar cheese), and not just mix all the stuff together in the baking dish.

Boil macaroni in heavily salted water.
Melt as much cheese into as little milk as you can with a bunch of butter until you have enough sauce. If you want more flavor, make a light roux for the cheese sauce first.
Put macaroni in greased baking dish.
Add sauce.
Cover macaroni in thick layer of shredded cheese and bread crumbs, or just shredded cheese if you don't like bread crumbs.
No eggs. They are the worst in mac and cheese.
Cook until the top is nice and brown. Don't overcook, or the sauce starts to separate and it just gets really greasy.

No big deal. If you want that fake cheesiness, you need to use cheese sauce or a cheese blend like Velveeta.

x2 that is essentially how we used to make ours. Can't find the recipe I used to have.

 

[Zimm]

1. drive to capitol grill
2. pony up to bar with favorite call girl
3. order the mac and cheese with chunk lobster
4. drink, eat, get horny
5. bone chick for 1200 bucks.

 

[agomez]

Luby's here in SA serves the best mac I have ever tasted the cheese is melted throughout the dish.....damn I'm hungry

 

[beaufort-fj60]

the kids like this brand....

this one has one odd step that I have not seen anywhere else. When you cook the shells, you don't drain, but boil it down to a sticky soup.... then you add the milk and powdered sauce and reduce for another 7 minutes...


Does anyone else boil down with the noodles and use the "boil water sauce"

 

[bigndn]

My kids beg for my mac-n-cheese all the time. I cut 6 smokies in half lengthwise and those into 1/4" chunks. Throw the smokies into a large skillet and brown, stirring occasionally. Boil a whole bag or box of large elbow macaronis (or shells) in salted water, with a splash of olive oil. Cube Velveeta into a 4C pyrex measuring cup, then fill approx 1/3 with milk and put a big dollop of butta on top. Nuke that at 50% for 10 mins, stirring occasionally. Once that melts down, I put a wet paper towel on top of the Pyrex and nuke it some more, until it's all blended together and there are no chunks.

When the noodles are done, drain well and dump back into the pot. Stir in the smokies and then the Velveeta mix. Then I stir in about 2 T of Chili powder. Let those flavors blend for about 20 mins over low heat, stirring occasionally and serve.

 

[JJS]

Nothing makes a fat man angrier than when the sauce starts to separate.





Truthfully, that sounds damn good.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

My Dad swears that crunched up Lays BBQ chips on top of the mac is the way to go. I haven't gotten the balls (or gut) to try it yet. He said he was totally skeptical too, but loves it now.