Recipe: Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese Thanks Cathrine

[Guest guest]

OMG! Cathrine my recipe is very close to this one and it's an old one also, I

never got around to posting it. Comfort food and beyond.

Thank you, now I won't look for mine...Donna

 

Cathrine Qua <cathrineq wrote:

My Mom gave me this recipe years and years ago when I first moved out.

It's rich as heck, and totally comfort food. I made it again today,

after forgetting about it for years. I'm drooling at the smell, and

can't wait until it's done.

 

Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese

 

1 small bag macaroni or shell pasta, 454 grams

8 tbsp butter

8 tbsp flour

4 cups milk

salt & pepper, about 1/4 tsp each

pinch cayenne pepper

1 1/2 lbs cheddar cheese, sharp or combination of sharp and mild, cubed

1/4 cup bread crumbs

 

Turn oven on to 375 degrees.

Cook pasta to al dente.

Heat milk and butter, and stir flour in, and wisk, wisk, wisk, wisk,

until smooth and thickened.

In a deep casserole dish, layer pasta, cheese, white sauce, and repeat

until three layers have been made.

Top with bread crumbs (I didn't have any today, so I toasted a few

slices of potato rosemary bread and grated them.) Spray with cooking

spray.

Bake for 45 minutes, until bubbling.

 

Yeah, it's rich, but damn, is it good.

 

Cathrine

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Many thanks... I still remember calling Mom from my first kitchen, and

asking her for the recipe... still have the recipe card I wrote out.

 

It's so funny, today, when it was ready and had cooled down enough, I

gave some to my parrots, one of whom is a KD addict. Well. The bird

is now so stuffed, it's not funny, and he's still watching the bowl,

lest someone approach it. As us bird folks say, it was " tails in the

air " for a half hour. Soul food, is what this is!

 

It amazes me how often I think I've given up the last of my recipe

reserves, and then out of the blue, a good one smacks me in the face

again!

 

Cath

 

, purplepassion

<thelilacflower> wrote:

>

> OMG! Cathrine my recipe is very close to this one and it's an old

one also, I never got around to posting it. Comfort food and beyond.

> Thank you, now I won't look for mine...Donna

>

> Cathrine Qua <cathrineq@r...> wrote:

> My Mom gave me this recipe years and years ago when I first moved out.

> It's rich as heck, and totally comfort food. I made it again today,

> after forgetting about it for years. I'm drooling at the smell, and

> can't wait until it's done.

>

> Old Fashioned Mac & Cheese

>

> 1 small bag macaroni or shell pasta, 454 grams

> 8 tbsp butter

> 8 tbsp flour

> 4 cups milk

> salt & pepper, about 1/4 tsp each

> pinch cayenne pepper

> 1 1/2 lbs cheddar cheese, sharp or combination of sharp and mild, cubed

> 1/4 cup bread crumbs

>

> Turn oven on to 375 degrees.

> Cook pasta to al dente.

> Heat milk and butter, and stir flour in, and wisk, wisk, wisk, wisk,

> until smooth and thickened.

> In a deep casserole dish, layer pasta, cheese, white sauce, and repeat

> until three layers have been made.

> Top with bread crumbs (I didn't have any today, so I toasted a few

> slices of potato rosemary bread and grated them.) Spray with cooking

> spray.

> Bake for 45 minutes, until bubbling.

>

> Yeah, it's rich, but damn, is it good.

>

> Cathrine

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