A couple weeks to a month back, I heard someone on twitter say how her kids didn’t like any other kind of macaroni and cheese other than what came in a box. So I offered to show her how I make my quick and easy homemade mac & cheese.
If you live in my house then you love macaroni and cheese. It’s absolutely like a staple here. We always have the ingredients to make it on hand. Typically a list for a run to the grocery store would look something like this….
Milk
Bread
Eggs
Macaroni and Cheese ingredients :)
Seriously, the love for mac and cheese runs that deep. We eat it at least several times a week. While this might not be the most healthy thing to eat, we still love it and welcome the indulgence anytime we get.
Part 1: how to make homemade mac and cheese
Part 2: how to make homemade mac and cheese
As you can see from the quick video I captured using my iPhone that making homemade mac and cheese is just as easy as opening a box. We prefer and welcome the taste of this homemade version over the box version any day of the week. If its just as easy, why not make the real stuff? That’s what I like to say.
Since I’ve been making mac and cheese this way for so long, there really isn’t a set recipe that I go by. Like other good chefs, its basically a pinch of this, a little bit of that. But for the sake of my readers I will try to share “a recipe”, just play around with it a bit to find the right combination for you…
Ingredients
2 cups macaroni, cooked
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese (usually its 2 pretty good sized handfuls of shredded cheddar cheese, I’m just guessing at whether or not it is 1 cup worth or not….also, I prefer Kraft but if I have other cheese on hand that I got on sale or whatever, I’ll use what is on hand)
1/2-3/4 cup milk (again, I just eyeball it)
1-2 tbsp flour (this helps to thicken the milk/cheese mixture, again I typically eyeball this)
Directions
As you see in the videos above, once the macaroni is cooked and draining you make the “cheese sauce” by combining the cheese, milk, and flour until melted. Once cheese is melted and slightly thickened from the flour combine with the cooked macaroni noodles and voila homemade macaroni and cheese.
Pretty easy, huh?
Do you ever make homemade macaroni and cheese? What is your quick and easy method? If you are more of a box mac and cheese person what is your favorite kind? Why do you make mac and cheese from a box?
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