


After the butter and flour starts to bubble (but before it turns brown), drizzle in your milk while you are continuously whisking. Whisking is very important when it comes to making a roux (which some people call it a white sauce – but roux sounds so fancy 🙂 ). Melt your butter and sprinkle your flour into same while whisking. Trust me, you will not go back after you have had this combination.įirst things first, put some water into a pot and start the boiling process for your noodles while you are working on your roux.
#Oven baked macaroni and cheese rue mac
When you eat mac and cheese in my family, you have to have green beans and a muffin of some sort. First, the macaroni recipe, then on Thursday, I will post the recipe for the Blueberry Muffins. I mean, haven’t you heard the Pure Michigan ads?

Maybe other states have wild flowers on a man-made trail, BUUUUUTTTTTTTT, Michigan has that nostalgia about it. This is what makes me love where I live and of course, and is one of the many things great about Michigan. During those runs, I was able to think more clearly and of course not feel as stressed I mean, how can you feel stress when this is where you run…… (below) The only thing that I learned during my vacation is that I work too much (don’t we all), and that I need to be able to run on a daily basis. It’s not like my old way was not proper, I just need to find the perfect balance between being a mom, wife, an admin, and blogger. I had a little bit of time off from my day job and took a little break from the blog so I could clear my head, come up with some creative ideas and try to get into a rhythm of doing things. It was like I should have not put forth the effort and just melted the cheese into the milk (true story). I have tried with 1/2% and it did not set nicely. Unfortunately, in order for your roux to set up perfectly, I would recommend using no lower than 2% milk. The one thing that I have to say, is try both ways (using either whole everything or 2%) and see which is best. Save the leftovers to make these mac n cheese nacho party bites.My beautiful cousin requested that I put my macaroni and cheese recipe on the blog because she wants/needs a simple, yet deeee-lish… AND can be healthified (apparently not a word, but will be now ha ha). I do have one mac and cheese appetizer here. Now that I am a big mac and cheese fan, be prepared for numerous versions, because I tend to geek out like that. This one is perfect and comes out every time. The tricky part of a good mac n cheese is making the roux. You can further the heat by substituting one of the cheddar cheeses with a pepper cheese, or leave the heat out altogether. Turn up the Heat in the Best Homemade Macaroni and Cheese Recipe by Adding Poblano Peppers It also has to hold together for me to like it. You’ll never make it any other way after you’ve had it like this. The best homemade macaroni and cheese recipe is not topped with breadcrumbs but instead toasted bread pieces. I like when macaroni and cheese is gooey inside, but still intact. I hated liver until I went to Paris. I hated macaroni and cheese until I moved to the South and had the crispy topped version like the one I’m showing you. My husband hated red wine until we accidentally found ourselves in the middle of a Chianti wine festival in Italy. It’s all about exposure and that right moment. We also change our eating minds about what we like and don’t like. Sometimes people think they know themselves, but we are not an inanimate object we are a living organism and we change our sleep patterns, our hairstyles, the size of our shoe heels, and the color of our lipstick. I used to hate kale and now I have numerous kale recipes showing how wonderful it can be. It’s not the the first time my mind has been changed by food. I played a little bit with the original recipe as it was super rich, but it’s still gooey good. That really made me smile, which is funny because her blog is called. I looked at the name and behold, it was from a Nashville friend and fellow blogger, Beth Sachan. She came over one day and we made it together. My mom, Retro Rose, cut the recipe out of the Tennessean and saved it for years. This best homemade macaroni and cheese recipe works, and is so good. I’ve left it on plates in restaurants for being too milky, too flavorless or too dry. The problem I’ve had with macaroni and cheese is too often, there’s no there there. I know I should be thrown out of the South for saying that, but wait, this homemade macaroni and cheese recipe changed my mind.

Until this recipe, I never liked mac and cheese.
