Otherwise, you might forget what you did. I like to make mine in a large pan, Dutch oven, or casserole dish so I can have plenty of leftovers. If you want to mix something into the mac and cheese to cut back on the carbs and increase the nutrition, consider using butternut squash or cauliflower.
For the cheese sauce, you can use cream, regular milk, skim milk, or almond milk. When I make a mac and cheese casserole, sometimes I top it with a mixture of shredded cheese and bread crumbs. But not always. My easy macaroni and cheese casserole is delicious with or without the crunch because I bake it until the top turns a golden brown. Every bite is so satisfying! Choose foods that add color to the plate to make the meal a more satisfying experience. If you offer a few add-ons, such as bacon bits, garlic salt, or ham, the person can doctor it up according to his or her personal taste.
Sometimes you just need a little extra comfort. Hot Dogs — Serve hot dogs on buns to go with the macaroni and cheese. Or another great option is to chop up the hot dogs and cook them with the macaroni and cheese. Macaroni cheese is now often described as street food. It is not. Where is the comfort in that?
It is not a restaurant dish, either. Just as the Man v Food generation felt it necessary to pimp eugh! Fundamentally, macaroni cheese is a simple dish.
In terms of its textures and flavours, it should be a gently layered mouthful of creamy, spoonable pleasure that demands nothing more than you relax, sit back and enjoy it. This is a dish for the home. This is a dish for exhausted midweek nights, when you want to spend 30 minutes in the kitchen decompressing, before flopping down in front of Coronation Street.
Apparently, actor Mark Wahlberg likes macaroni cheese for breakfast. Which is, erm, maverick. If this is true, is UK productivity slumping alarmingly between 3pm and 4pm as we collectively suffer a mid-afternoon carb crash?
That is another reason why it is preferable to eat macaroni cheese at home in the evening— you have a selection of familiar soft-furnishingson which to slump afterwards. In its purest form, in perhaps its highest expression, macaroni cheese requires no more than al dente pasta macaroni or penne, rigatoni is too big ; a white sauce spiked with mustard and flavoured with mature cheddar and a little gruyere or Lincolnshire Poacher Lancashire cheese is too tart and often melts oddly; mozzarella is too oily and stringy ; and a topping of parmesan and breadcrumbs.
There, you have everything you need: crunchiness, slippery pasta with a residual bite, a luxuriously unctuous sauce, logically interlocking layers of salty, cheesy savouriness and, in the background, a hint of heat to stop it becoming too overbearingly rich.
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