{"id":88,"date":"2010-01-21T18:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-05-17T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:07:05","slug":"creamy-macaroni-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/creamy-macaroni-and-cheese.html","title":{"rendered":"Creamy Macaroni and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anything, anything to stay away from the Kraft Cheesy Mac!<\/em><\/p>\n

As Adam, the source, notes, “The idea here is that rather than making a fussy white sauce, something I never seemed to get the hang of, you make a custard for the cheese.\u00a0 It’s fantastic and easy — not much harder than the box, and so much better.”
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Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00bd lb. Macaroni
\n4 tbsp Butter<\/p>\n

2 lg Eggs
\n12 oz. Evaporated Milk
\n\u00bc tsp Hot Pepper Sauce
\n1 tsp Mustard<\/p>\n

3 cups Grated Cheese<\/p>\n

Pepper
\nSalt<\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Boil up the Maraconi in salted water, definitely al dente<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. Drain Macaroni, transfer to a large fryer, dutch oven, or large pan (if the original isn’t large enough).\u00a0 Should be something with a thick bottom such that heat is distributed evenly.<\/li>\n
  3. Add Butter; leave it to melt in the hot macaroni.<\/li>\n
  4. Mix Eggs, 1 cup (8 oz) Evaporated Milk, Pepper Sauce, Mustard, Salt & Pepper (to taste) in a small boul.<\/li>\n
  5. Put Macaroni (and Butter) on medium heat.<\/li>\n
  6. Pour the Egg mix over the Macaroni along with 2 cups of the Cheese.\u00a0 Stir constantly until the cheese starts to melt.<\/li>\n
  7. Gradually add in the rest of the Cheese and Evaporated Milk, stirring constantly, for about 5 minutes more.\u00a0 The whole mix will look overly liquid to begin with, but as the cheese melts and the egg cooks, it will thicken.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Serves<\/strong>:\u00a0 4
    \nPrep Time<\/strong>: 20 minutes<\/p>\n

    Ingredient notes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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    1. The original recipe calls for half\u00a0 Cheddar, half Monterey Jack.\u00a0 Since we always have some Mexican Blend shredded in bags in the house, we use that.<\/li>\n
    2. You could go for more Macaroni; as is, the recipe has a high sauce-to-mac ratio.<\/li>\n
    3. The original recipe calls fo 2 tsp Mustard.\u00a0 Consensus in our household is that’s too much.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Serving notes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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      1. If you want to be fancy, you can take the individual servings, put them in a small ceramic dish, sprinkle bread crumbs or crumpled croutons, and put them under the broiler for a short bit.<\/li>\n
      2. The original writer suggests the recipe is not as good the second day, but it can be reheated on the range, slowly, with a little extra milk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Source<\/strong>:\u00a0 Adam Blust at “Words Mean Things,” who originally got it from Pam Anderson’s The Perfect Recipe<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Anything, anything to stay away from the Kraft Cheesy Mac! As Adam, the source, notes, “The idea here is that rather than making a fussy white sauce, something I never seemed to get the hang of, you make a custard for the cheese.\u00a0 It’s fantastic and easy — not much harder than the box, and … Continue reading “Creamy Macaroni and Cheese”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,8],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entree-casserole","category-entree-pasta","category-entree-vegetarian","tag-hill"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}