Baked Mac and Cheese
 

Anyone got any good recipes for Baked Mac and Cheese. would be appreciated. Thanks

Baked Mac & Cheese
 

I have also been looking for a recipe like my grandmother used to make. If anyone has it I would appreciate it. If I remember correctly she cooked the elbow mac and then layered it with butter, thick slices of cheese, milk and topped it with crushed saltines then baked it. It was the BEST ever but I have never been able to duplicate it.

Ginny R,

Baked Mac and Cheese
 

This is my favorite:

Macaroni and Cheese Supreme (from the Kraft Cheese Cookbook)

½-3/4 cup diced onions
¼ cup margarine
2 cups (8 oz) shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 cup milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups (7 oz) elbow macaroni, cooked and drained

Saute onions in butter. Combine with rest of ingredients.
Pour into greased 8” square baking dish or 1.5 qt casserole
Bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes.

Optional: After 20 minutes of baking, top with tomato slices and sprinkle with parmesan cheese; continue baking until set.

Thanks will try it out :)

My mom made wonderful mac and cheese. She was one heckuva cook. I am not.

Her mac and cheese secret was a little dry mustard. I wish I could tell you how much. I don't know. I use it, too. But I do not measure it. Maybe someone else here can help with the amount. -- maybe start with a teaspoon. But that's just a guess. I am just after an underlying little kick.

I tried Paula Deen's mac and cheese recipe, but it turned out with a custard texture that just was not like I wanted. It was good, but I would not use the recipe again. But I bet others would really like it.

Mac and cheese is a truly splendid thing. And I think maybe every family memory of it has its own version. If I am going to make the real thing, I must confess, all my ingredients are the high test stuff. Whole milk, lots of butter, lots of cheese, all the bad stuff.

Mac and cheese may be the ultimate comfort food. It sure is wonderful and as an added bonus, it is one of those things that is even better the next day.

Good luck with your recipe.

Boomer

This is my recipe:

Grease a 8X8 pan with butter. Put in a layer of cooked macaroni (al dente). Sprinkle the layer with some flour, salt and pepper, grated sharp cheddar cheese, and dot with butter. Put another layer of macaroni, and layer the same. The top layer will just be macaroni with cheese, butter, and salt and pepper (no flour). Then fill the pan about 3/4 full with milk. I use 2%, but whole milk will make it creamier. Sprinkle top with bread crumbs and dot with butter. Bake at 350 degrees 45 minutes to an hour, till it is the consistency you like. (the milk kind of bubbles up through the casserole and makes its own sauce).

Dry Mustard sounds good. I agree if it is going to be good, it must have all the stuff they say you should not eat in it. Thanks for the info!!!!

An elderly PA Dutch lady I met made the best mac & cheese. She used lots of extra sharp cheddar, made her white sauce and added cream of celery soup. Topped it with crushed potato chips. MMMMM

Slidell LA, Phil's Marina Café. Baked macaroni and cheese as a side dish. YUM great with the fresh oysters and bugs. No idea how they make it, but the best I have had. Next time I go there I will ask the cook.

However...if you use a better pasta....like Dream Fields....and fat free cheese and fat free milk and smart balance butter......if you need to have bread crumbs use wheat or Wonder Kidz white.....add broccoli to the side....life is good....

Why bother?barf

Just kidding, no offense, jmho.

Hey Sarge: Add some sour cream to some of the above recipes, and you will even have a better ( & even more fattening) dish.
Don't dish on our comfort dishes! LOL

My mother made a great macaroni and cheese dish. At least that is what my sister says. It was on my ketchup can only make it taste better list.

For you that love macaroni and cheese - bon appitit!!

I guess this may be the case if one ate too much mac n' cheese. One doesn't need to deny thine self, they just need to portion appropriately. ;)

I thought I was the only one who puts ketchup on mac & cheese!
I only do it in the privacy of home though, as it seems to gross people out!
Don't knock it until you've tried it!

Mac and Cheese
 

My recipe, very simple the way my grandmother made it:

Butter large casserole dish well, place layer of grated cheese, I mix sharp and mild cheddar equally. Then place layer of cooked macaroni, another layer of cheese and so on till all used. End with generous layer of cheese. Dot with butter. Pour in whole milk(I use some half/half as well). Bake about an hour at 350. Sorry but I don't measure anything. I use about 2 lbs of cheese and a pound and a half of macaroni. Always wonderful and I'm asked to bring it to every potluck I go to.

Sounds yummy. Do you think this would turn out if made in a crockpot?

I think you could, I never tried it that way. Let me know if you do.

Instead of ketchup, my mother and grandmother used to have a dish of stewed tomatos on the table. A couple spoonfuls of stewed tomatos on top of your serving was delicious!

crockpot
 

I would think the crockpot would add too much water (condensation).

If you google "Crockpot mac and cheese" you'll find quite a few recipes. Even one of Paula Deen's here: http://www.recipezaar.com/Paula-Deen...-Cheese-257276

I stand corrected, thanks! Now why didn't I think to google it...

Yet another shameless confession.....
 

Mac and cheese is important. It just might be the ultimate comfort food.

When I make it, I always add a little dry mustard. I think the spice bottle says ground mustard. But you know what I mean. It kicks it up a little.

And now, I must make one of my shameless confessions. I know there could be some who read this and find themselves taken aback and appalled even. They might look all properly horrified and start talking among themselves, saying things like, "Ohhhhhh, that Boomer, she certainly is no gourmet cook is she now. Did you hear her confess what she puts in her mac and cheese?"

Well, I just don't care what anybody says. I am going to confess anyway....

When I make that sauce with the butter and whole milk and a little flour and cheddar cheese and that bit of dry mustard, you know what else I like to throw in there?......

Velveeta! :shocked:

Somehow a hit of Velveeta thrown in smooths that sauce right out and makes that real cheese, the cheddar, taste beddar.

Saucy Boomer

(Hey. I just looked back at the start of this thread and saw it has been around for a while. And I talked about mac and cheese here before. But that was long ago and I left out the shameless Velveeta confession part and I was even trying to be nice about Paula Deen's recipe. Geez.)