Why can’t I just like both of them?!! DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE PEOPLE!! However, I can tell you that I prefer southern & soul food mac and cheese over the others. That’s like asking me to choose between Morris Chestnut and Idris Elba. If I had to pick my favorite recipe for macaroni and cheese, I probably couldn’t because there are way too many to choose from. Even as an adult, I still love me some macaroni and cheese. My favorite thing to sample was macaroni and cheese! I’d always make up an excuse for why I needed two bites to ” make sure” it was right… Yeah I was a greedy lil thang back then too! Especially when it came to mac and cheese! I’d just observe everything, and patiently wait for her to ask me to sample something. She’d turn on the radio, play that good ol’ r&b ( explains why I listen to r&b while I cook!), and go in! My mom would be in the kitchen all Sunday peeling potatoes for her southern potato salad, and cleaning fresh greens that she bought from the market.
My mom would wake up early every Sunday to get started on dinner. I remember it just like it was yesterday. Yassss! Just the thought of it take me back to my childhood! I’m talking about crispy fried chicken, tender collard greens with ham hocks, buttery cornbread, and super creamy cheesy mac and cheese.
There is something about homemade macaroni and cheese that makes me want a complete soul food meal.
What are the best cheeses for home made mac and cheese how to#
How to make sure the cheese cream is really cheesy? By adding a splash of cream to the bechamel sauce, substituting some of the milk with cream.Never forget to salt your water when cooking your pasta, otherwise, your macaroni won’t have many flavors.Always remember to buy durum wheat Italian pasta for your macaroni and cheese.Undercook your pasta so that when it will be baked won’t be overcooked (check my guide on how to cook pasta like an Italian).Remember: the cheese sauce is the main element of this dish so you always need to use a pungent cheese so that the white sauce won’t absorb all the flavor.Total time: 1 hour How to Make an Even Better Mac ‘n’ Cheese To keep it short, macaroni and cheese are short pasta baked with cheddar cheese melted in a kind of béchamel with the addition of more cheese: once cooked, the macaroni and cheese are meant to be soft and creamy and to have a delicious golden crust on the surface. That said, Americans always claim macaroni cheese as their own, and it’s not a mystery that Kraft invented the boxed version using macaroni pasta in 1937. They were brought to the United States by President Thomas Jefferson who tasted this pasta in France in 1700: the mac ‘n’ cheese spread in a very short time in all the American kitchens. People say macaroni and cheese it Italian by origins and for sure it resembles something Italian but being Italian myself, for me, mac ‘n’ cheese has never existed I usually make something similar, in some way, called Pasta au gratin which includes a lot of cheese but also charcuterie.Īccording to the myth, the first ones to prepare macaroni and cheese would have been the French, and traces of the recipe can be found in a 14th-century cookbook.
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