Macaroni and Cheese

Both, but I generally like it as a side now. I make the Fannie Farmer recipe. It's good with Cheddar but especially good with Gruyere. I also like to top with toasted panko breadcrumbs before putting it in the oven. As a main, I like it with stewed tomatoes. It's the only reason I would ever but stewed tomatoes, but it's really good.

R1/Dustin, you can always be relied on when it comes to cooking. I hope your vacation has been a blast.

Why, thank you R2! It's been wonderful. Very relaxing. My partner said this is the best beach vacation we've had. We didn't bog ourselves down with a lot of activities. And the location is just stunning.

And I forgot, the breadcrumbs get toasted in butter. Lol

I put effort into my mac & cheese and serve it as an entree.

Tillamook extra sharp chedder

bleu cheese

Dave's Red Hot Sauce

heavy cream

Kerry Gold butter

flour

I consider plain M&C a side dish. But when I beef it up with lobster tail or shrimp it's definitely a main dish.

I put vegetables in it

I put tuna in it and then eat it as a main dish

[quote]Vivian Vance loved Mac & Cheese

And it showed.

I use the recipe that was on the box of Creamettes macaroni.

In fact, when my grandmother died, I inherited her recipe boxes. One of them had a piece of the Creamettes box with the recipe on it. Has to be from the Fourties. I still use it.

I like mac & cheese very much, but I find attempt at fancying it up kind of annoying. Sure, throw some bacon or tuna or whatever in with it, but Jesus, no amount of pasta and cheese is worth $45 bucks at a steakhouse. (I'm looking at YOU Tom Coliccio.)

And don't get me started on putting it in some sort of bread bowl or whatever. A woman in my office used to go to Panera every day to get mac&cheese in a bread bowl (she was a vegetarian and let everyone know it.) It just looked so squishy and gross to me.

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Thanks R1, I'm trying that Frannie Flagg's Mac & Cheese, looks yummy

I use Martha’s Macaroni and Cheese 101 recipe.

Hi - I forgot to add at R1 that I also add a bit of cayenne and a grating of fresh nutmeg to my cheese sauce. God, don't let me turn into Gerg.

R12, Julia Child was a great believer in fresh nutmeg, with the caveat, there should only be enough for a subtle hint, but not to the point where one would say, "Oh, nutmeg!"

I made R1's recipe yesterday. It was amazing. The only thing I did differently was add two eggs and did half sharp cheddar and half Monterey Jack. Thank you for posting that.

A racist on DL called me and another poster named Mao crackheads for liking Mac n cheese on Thanksgiving. Sad.

Dustin, you cannot be Gerg because you didn’t post a recipe no one asked for and defend it in the face of all contrary culinary principles.