Being a mac 'n cheese eater, C/D?

ps. You can turn yourself yellow/orange from eating too much. Just ask any jockish university student living off campus for the first time.

i have never tried this. :-(

Whenever my husband's out -he hates cheese - I have some mac'n'cheese nowadays. DA YUM.

i didn't have kraft growing up so i don't fuck with it now, but i like making fancypants baked mac & cheese with a lot of tomatoes and hot sauce.

i have discovered that incorporating egg into the cheese sauce during preparation allows for a nice binding agent and lends a nice fluffy texture to the cheezy bits. ideal.

Macaroni pie from Greggs is the shit.

Scotch pie with macaroni cheese inside of it instead of mutton and without a lid for those who don't habla.

i can never get that "burned" bits on top though. :-( i make a portion for 4 ppl but have it all for myself. HURRAH

My gran makes proper macaroni and cheese from scratch with diced ham, so nice.

So do I. So easy. Except for the burned bits. heh

diced pancetta in a gruyere/cheddar sauce, dawgs.

a flange in your gran's macaroni

had the Mariachi Mac N Cheese straight outta beecher's for lunch.

gruyere/cheddar

this is key but i throw in some mozz for good measure too. and sometimes roasted red pepper.

I did not like cheese as a kid. Missed out on my mom's hommade stuff. Never experienced Kraft stuff.

It's a great foodstuff, though, undoubtedly. Even vegan versions I've had are fulfilling

i know everyone is all about the gruyere -- i find cheddar to be a bit oily which can makes the crust and sides unpalatably hard if it's overcooked even a minute too long -- but for me the true nostalgic classic is rigatoni in an American cheese (LOL white) sauce with tomato slices on top. THANKS, NAN, AWESOME MACARONI & CHEESE

LOL = Land O' Lakes, I mean! although mac & cheese is kinda LOL white

(i would start a series of polls for the best macaroni and the best cheese(s) to use but i've got to run out the door right now. i'm fuckin' hungry.)

people need to submit recipes here

I'd say if you don't like breadcrumbs on the top of the mac/cheese, stale-ish powdered Parmesan could be your friend. That, nutmeg and cracked white pepper. Also the cheese doesn't go stringy or weirdly coagulate in the oven if you are on top of sauce-making skills.

Any shouts for Stouffer's? It might be US Bird's Eye now. I live on that stuff when I go home for Xmas and the cabin fever becomes an element of food procurement.

Kraft dinners are better with the orange powder cheese because I do them with butter, pinch of nutmeg and whole milk. Then gobs and gobs of pepper on top.

Brooklyn mac/cheese eaters: Ever been to Moto? Their (belyingly simple) version of m/c is the best I've ever had.

i haven't but Dumont is deservedly famous for its mac n cheese, it's great

any opinions about what pasta is best for mac and cheese? i find a lot of macaroni too weensy for my liking

Rigatoni or large elbow macaroni.

this thread is making me prematurely mourn florent

:(

WHAT?????????????????????????

please don't what what i think you're going to say

I've only ever had mac n cheese made myself with bechamel mixed thru short pasta, with various cheeses, maybe some tomato slices on top, bread crumbs, then under the grill/in the oven.

Good pasta for said: mostachioli (mini penne), small rigatoni, maybe twirly macaroni.

Tracer, call waaaaaaaaahmbulances for both of us.

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/02/florent_to_clos.php

wow that is dispiriting

but lovely to see how much love is being put into flo's last days

:/

so many late night memories there.. on the weekends, at 4:30am, that place could be so crowded that you couldn't find a seat

it used to be my setting-off-point for thursday night jungle action, wherever it was.. konkrete jungle, etc - even in those days of legal indoor smoking flo always wanted you to smoke at the bar, not the tables..

so many late night memories there.. on the weekends, at 4:30am

rip

NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo ;_;

<3<3<3 Florent, steak-frites, pate, mac&cheese at all hours of the night.

Beecher's Mac & Cheese @ Pike Place Market = mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I have never had Mac 'n' Cheese. Does it come out of a tin, or is a ready meal type thing? Or do you make it yourself?

i have the beecher's cookbook. their mac and cheese recipe really is THAT GOOD.

Does it come out of a tin,
No.

or is a ready meal type thing?
Sometimes.

Or do you make it yourself?
Hopefully.

the idea of mac & cheese from a can is really repulsing me right now.

i have the beecher's cookbook. their mac and cheese recipe really is THAT GOOD.

ysi?

Never mind; google sez it's everywhere on the web.

I'm surprised there ISN'T mac 'n' cheese in a can in the UK actually. "Instructions: puncture top of can, place can in boiling water for 20 minutes."

there is! heinz macaroni cheese.

I was just about to say that!

http://www.britishfooddirect.com/images/44-138-h-macCheese400.jpg

I'm pretty sure there's also a canned one in the US but I can't remember the name. Damn.

depression in a can

forsaking the ampersand crucial to any mac & cheese recipe

hahaha i love how the creators of that heinz atrocity can't quite bring themselves to call it "macaroni and cheese" - the prick of conscience?

but wait, is there actually any macaroni in the can? or is it just the cheese sauce?

"macaroni cheese" --> "cheese for use with macaroni"

holding out hope

Mac and cheese exist in europe but they're not usually sold/served as "mac n chees", just as, you know, pasta with cheese sauce

Sorry elmo, there's definitely macaroni in that can.

We are talking about the people who put hamburgers and fries in a can!!!

generality is the enemy of art

General Ity, of the Khmer Rouge?

Son, 20, Beat Father, 54, During Argument Over Macaroni And Cheese

A family argument over boxed macaroni and cheese resulted in the arrest of a 20-year-old South Carolina man who is jailed for allegedly battering his father, police report.

Brian Rossi, 54, told sheriff’s deputies that he was “trying to make some macaroni and cheese for dinner” yesterday when he “discovered that there was only pasta and no more cheese packets” in the box.

After throwing out the pasta, Rossi told his son Alex to “stop using all of the cheese packets,” according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office report.

After exchanging a few words with his father, Alex “ran after him and began to punch him in the face and head.” The younger Rossi “eventually took Brian to the ground and continued to hit him.”

i think i remember that from one of the lawgiving scenes from the old testament

A delight!

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Annie-s-Mac-and-Cheese-is-based-in-Bay-Area-but-16049782.php