Mac N Cheese

lostcreekranch · Sep 30, 2013

I like mine with some sliced Prasek's Jalpeno sausage.

Cat_Driver · Oct 1, 2013

Serves 4-6
Prep time 5 minutes
Cook time 15 minutes
Total time 20 minutes
Meal type Main Dish, Side Dish
Misc Child Friendly, Serve Hot
Occasion Barbecue, Casual Party
Website Slightly adapted from Panera's Website
Ingredients

1 16-ounce Package package of rigati pasta ((or other small pasta shells))
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups milk (2% or whole)
6 Slices white American cheese (chopped)
8oz extra-sharp white Vermont cheddar (shredded)
1/2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon hot sauce

Directions
Step 1
Prepare pasta according to package directions.
Step 2
Melt butter over low heat. Whisk in flour and cook 1 minute, whisking constantly.
Step 3
Gradually whisk in milk; cook over medium heat, whisking until mixture thickens and bubbles. Remove from heat.
Step 4
Add cheeses, mustard, salt, and hot sauce, stirring until cheese melts and sauce is smooth.
Step 5
Stir in pasta and cook over medium heat for 1 minute (or until thoroughly heated). Serve immediately.

charlz · Oct 1, 2013

Kraft Mac and Cheese is the only one I eat. In elementary school we got and ate a lot of what was apparently government surplus food. The Mac and Cheese was especially disgusting with a pungent odor. The cafeteria was located in the basement of our 2 story school house and just the smell wafting up through the building made me want to puke. Nothing like dreading going to lunch to help you focus on your school work

Sauerkraut was another one, won't even go near the stuff to this day.

farmgirl19 · Oct 1, 2013

I won't eat the boxed Mac n cheese, nor the store bought sauerkraut. But I make mac n cheese from scratch, and make and can my own sauerkraut. Love both, and can avoid GMO wheat in the pasta!

Bird · Oct 1, 2013

I can't remember when we had macaroni and cheese except for the Velveeta Shells & Cheese and we both like that. But I also like sauerkraut and my wife won't touch it. My parents said when they lived in Baltimore when I was a baby, when you bought a hot dog, they asked "with or without kraut?" So I grew up liking kraut stuffed in my chili dogs.:laughing:

The only problem I ever found with school lunches was one school regularly had meatloaf. I don't know what their recipe was, but the only way I could eat it was to bury it in catsup. And I never put catsup on any other meatloaf.

RobertN · Oct 1, 2013

The las couple of years, my wife has grown cabbage and made sauerkraut. It is really sooo much better than store bought!

farmgirl19 said:
and make and can my own sauerkraut. Love both, and can avoid GMO wheat in the pasta!

jinman · Oct 2, 2013

Where I went to a little country school, sauerkraut and hot dogs was served on a plate, not in a bun. Of course we called it weenies and sauerkraut. Often we had pork-n-beans on the side and you could search all day and not find any pork in there. If you did find it, it was some white fatty glob you wanted to move over to the side of your plate so you accidentally didn't eat it.

When I got to go to another elementary school in the 6th grade, they served real beanie-weenie there and it was heaven.:thumbsup:

I don't think you'll see it today, but we also used to have liver and onions in elementary school. I loved it and all the other kids would pile theirs on my plate. I had more than I could eat on liver and onions day.:licking:

Bird · Oct 2, 2013

jinman said:
Where I went to a little country school, sauerkraut and hot dogs was served on a plate, not in a bun. Of course we called it weenies and sauerkraut. Often we had pork-n-beans on the side and you could search all day and not find any pork in there. If you did find it, it was some white fatty glob you wanted to move over to the side of your plate so you accidentally didn't eat it. When I got to go to another elementary school in the 6th grade, they served real beanie-weenie there and it was heaven.:thumbsup:

I don't think you'll see it today, but we also used to have liver and onions in elementary school. I loved it and all the other kids would pile theirs on my plate. I had more than I could eat on liver and onions day.:licking:

Yep, we had weenies & sauerkraut at home when I was a kid. Mother cut the weenies up into bite size pieces and heated the two ingredients together. I don't recall ever having liver and onions at school, but we sure did have them at home. I was probably 7 or 8 years old when my Mother went into the hospital to have her appendix out, so I cooked liver and onions myself. I don't know what the problem was, it didn't taste bad and Dad & my younger brothers and sisters ate it just fine, but something about the smell of it cooking made me not want any for many years. But then I got back to liking it. We occasionally eat at the Luby's Cafeteria on Loop 820, north side of Fort Worth and I love their liver and onions.