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Cooking & Baking

yellowdogintexas

(22,250 posts)

14. using a roux to melt your cheese in would accomplish the same thing

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #13)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 09:54 PM

Feb 2020

my daughter makes amazing and extremely unhealthy Mac & cheese. LOL
Roux, cream, 4 kinds of cheese.....and it is crazy good

the first holiday meal she shared with her Kurdish/Iranian in laws, she make a decadent mac and cheese. Now she can't show up without it.

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Obsessed with mac and cheese [View all] spinbaby Jan 2020 OP

first thing i learned to cook and still my go-to comfort food. unblock Jan 2020 #1

IMO, The blue box& fish sticks or with cubed ham are a trip to childhood. 😁 irisblue Jan 2020 #2

I also find myself obsessed with perfecting MontanaMama Jan 2020 #3

I like adding a vegetable like sweetpotatoes Auggie Jan 2020 #4

I have never been able to duplicate my grandmother's Bayard Jan 2020 #5

Here's a tip Major Nikon Jan 2020 #6

I've used Velveeta spinbaby Jan 2020 #7

Neat idea coating the shredded cheese with cornstarch, Blue_true Jan 2020 #12

Most any starch will work Major Nikon Jan 2020 #13

using a roux to melt your cheese in would accomplish the same thing yellowdogintexas Feb 2020 #14

That is essentially what mornay sauce is Major Nikon Feb 2020 #17

Do you use eggs? Remember the very best recipe Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #8

that would be the mac and cheese I grew up eating yellowdogintexas Feb 2020 #16

Yes, but with egg thoroughly mixed in milk. Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2020 #18

What's the big deal about Mac N Cheese? dem in texas Jan 2020 #9

my mom and granny would take the cooked macaroni, yellowdogintexas Feb 2020 #15

I don't use a slow cooker but Cairycat Jan 2020 #10

I wonder. Blue_true Jan 2020 #11