Some good Macaroni and Chesse

What a good idea. I have some carnation milk to use up and didn't know what to do with it. I like to add a little nutmeg in my cheese sauce and I usually use up all my bits and pieces of different cheeses to mix it up. I too have been craving lasagna lately. I think that may be a meal this week. I like spinach in my lasagna but hubby hates it, oh to spinach or not!

Lots of cheese and butter, yummy. I just made some the other day when the kids were here. I just made it on the stove, I didn't bake it. I have a big block of cheese and cut some of it in chunks and put that in with some butter and milk and let it melt. The kids were happy. When I make lasagna, I cheat and buy spagetti sauce, I cook my noodles, layer them with sauce, shredded cheese, I also add meat that I put some onion and green pepper in. Oh Lasagna does sound good. After I have it all put together, I bake it until bubbly and hot.

I also use carnation milk in my Macaroni. I would say my key ingerdient is also using colby cheese. Also using a good brand of cheese never use store brand always go with name brand cheese. Cheap cheese doesn't melt right and contains lots of oil and I use lots of butter so the oil and butter mixed up makes it really greasy and nasty.

I always use extra-matured Cheddar in my Macaroni Cheese. I put the macaroni in a heat-proof casserole dish, make the sauce and pour it over, then sprinkle Parmesan on the top, to create a stronger cheese flavour. Then, I'll decorate the top with a few small broccoli fluorettes and hey presto, you have a very tasty, cheesy, macaroni cheese, which also looks pretty and inviting. You could vary that by replacing the broccoli with wedges of tomato, sliced mushrooms, or whatever takes your fancy, or is to hand.

I like the sound of Macaroni made with condensed milk. I always used condensed for my Milk Jellies and Custard. It tastes so much better.

Brightest Blessings my friend, and now, I must go finish off my dinner, because you've made me mighty hungry!!! lol.

Wait a minute Marcie, since when are we not allowed to give recipes, so you mean that all those great desert "secret recipes" got Nuked..Oh well, Anyway My mom makes the best Mac & cheese. she puts 3 different kinds of cheese in it and it taste great. american, chedder, pepper jack. mmmmmmmm

This is going to sound a bit labour intensive but my mother used to sieve the flour when making the sauce from scratch. I don't know if this makes any difference but her Mac and cheese was always very, very good. I mix cheddar and gruyere cheese when making it myself.

you can actually give recipes in responses, but what I tend ot do with mac and cheese is just add things ot it, like burger, sausage, veggies, cream of mushroom soup and make more of a casserole out of it.

Always, or almost always I add more cheese to it, I never go by the box directions, but just add by eye.

I also use the off brand/store brands as its way cheaper than the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

Mooch

You can give recipes but they have to be part of the discussion, not all the discussion. So I can write a recipe for a cake if I precede it with the reason or if someone asks me about how to make something. So reason. Lasagna was used in Italy as a Sunday dish, and is now served in many places, including restaurants and also when you are on a plane.I make lasagna but not for some time. What I use is cottage cheese, Hunts Spaghetti sauce - the regular kind about two cans and I use the oven-ready Catelli express. I do not use a regular recipe, but do by guess and by golly.
What I do is to brown some ground beef in olive oil -1 lb to 2 lb, add garlic, onions, add oregano and sweet basil, a little salt and pepper and the spaghetti sauce. You can use regular tomato sauce but add some Italian seasonings along with it.
I then layer it in a lasagna or large oval cake pan, I put the ground beef mixture on the bottom, put on a layer of the lasagna noodles, continue layering the sauce over and put cottage cheese over the last layer and top with cottage cheese, plus a layer of mozerella. I got it off the Catelli box, there is a new one that contains pepperoni.

I put milk, chunks of sharp cheddar cheese, chunks of ham and stewed tomatoes and peppers. It is so good and eaten like a soup. It's not baked mac and cheese. My dad used to do this when I was a kid and it was my favorite. The sharper the cheese the better. We used Vermont extra sharp cheese.

I make mac and cheese from scratch, grating "old" cheddar and melting it with milk on top of the stove, then putting cooked macaroni and sauce in a cassarole dish, adding a can of chopped tomatoes, covering the top with seasoned bread crumbs and baking it for a half an hour. Yum