One Question Food Poll: Macaroni and Cheese

[rsadelle]

[Poll #1030086]

Comments

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

I admit to a total fondness for the shaped M&C that comes in a box (spirals! SpongeBob!), but I also like to make it with a parmesan cream sauce poured over shredded cheddar and noodles. The hot cream sauce melts the cheese but not enough to actually incorporate it into the sauce all the way. Mmm, now I want to make some. Maybe tomorrow for dinner if I remember to stop for cheddar.

[rsadelle]

I had macaroni and cheese (Macaroni. Cheese. Stir.) for dinner (after I discovered that my macaroni's best by date was a very long time in the past and had to go to the store to buy more pasta), and it was incredibly good. It's definitely a childhood food that I haven't had in a very long time, and that's probably a big part of it. I've also been sort of wanting winter foods, and that more or less qualifies.

[dine.livejournal.com]

for reasons probably related to 3 young children and not much money or time, my mom's homemade macaroni and cheese recipe is as follows:

cook a huge pot of macaroni and drain
dump in a can of Campbell's cheese soup/sauce and stir until melted
add bits of ham or a can of tuna and some celery
feed to children

I grew up eating this, and never could stand the boxed stuff. sadly, while I've had all sorts of "proper" mac & cheese since, it never quite tastes as right as my mom's version

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Baked. Cheese sauce, big ziti, ham chunks. Yum.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Mac n' cheese from a box--especially the kind with the velveeta-ish cheese you squeeze--is one of my favorite junk foods. I also really love the authentic baked kind, though. And since the kind with powdered cheese from a box was a staple of my diet for many years, I have about 15 methods for sprucing it up. (Like substituting a cup of Trader Joe's cheese-style yogurt for the milk and oil. Yummy. Or adding Dijon mustard and some kind of vegetable to it.)

[dedalvs.livejournal.com]

I'm tired of people dissing macaroni and cheese in a box--even if it's Annie's. TIRED.

[rsadelle]

I think there's certainly something about what your mom made in this question. My mom (presumably out of laziness and/or being tired with two small children) just grated cheese and dumped it onto the macaroni (in the pan, even), and stirred it.

[rsadelle]

*shudder* (I'm not much for the baked kind, and I don't eat meat. Plus, it's only real macaroni and cheese if you use elbow macaroni!)

[rsadelle]

When I was a kid, the boxed kind was a big treat for me when I got it at my friend's house. I just love the kind my mom made, which is the macaroni, cheese, stir version.

[rsadelle]

Ah, but I'm a snob, so I don't make things that come in a box with a mix. (Exception: rice pilaf. I suppose I could find a recipe and make it myself, but the one time I used it in a recipe, I just bought the box.) I will say that for a while, I liked the Amy's frozen macaroni and cheese, although the cheese sauce tends to stick to your teeth a bit.

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

Heathen! :D

It's good even without the ham, though, if you make the cheese sauce yourself. Which isn't hard, but I cannot recall it right now.

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

I love that no one said yes to "carbs are evil".

[allegram.livejournal.com]

My mom made it the same way as yours noodles plus cheese in the same pot. I in fact didn't realize that there was any other way to make it till I was in girl scouts and they tried to feed me that kraft stuff... ewww....

[rsadelle]

And I put it there to preempt the comments about how people don't eat carbs, or dairy, or wheat!

[rsadelle]

Ah, yes. We totally did grow up with the same kinds of foods.