macaroni cheese

[corrina28]

does any one have a nice macaroni cheese recipe? have just tried an asda frozen one and quite liked it, but obviously think a homemade one would be nicer, any suggestions??

[tiptoes]

Hi,I normaly make a cheese sauce with a little bit of grain mustard in .Mix with coked macaroni.You could add some pieces of ham.
Then top with a mixture of breadcrumbs and parmesaen or cheddar or both .

[covenoveneer]

I add fried lardons (cubes of bacon) and chopped boiled egg to cooked macaroni. Make a cheese sauce - melt butter, add flour to make a paste, slowly add milk until you get a slightly runny sauce, add salt/pepper a teaspoon of mustard and some nutmeg. Add grated cheese to sauce, when that has melted pour over macaroni, top with grated cheese and bung in oven until golden.

[TwigTwoolett]

boil macaroni with chopped onion until cooked .. drain

in the meantime

make white sauce (roux and milk .. will explain this if you need)
add mature grated cheddar till it tastes cheesy
tip in can of chopped tomatoes
taste sauce to check its yummy
mix into pasta and onion

tip into casserole dish, cover with grated cheese and foil

bake for 45 mins (last 10 mins uncovered) at 180

HTH

[TwoIfByScream]

I usually make it with just a cheese sauce and only add cauliflower to it.

[corrina28]

isnt that cauliflower cheese??

[TwigTwoolett]

Corrina I started a thread in food about whether people really do eat cauliflower cheese .. and it ran and ran to over 100 posts .. seems some people do .. still don't get it myself though

[asleep]

i just make a nice cheese sauce and add cooked macaroni. i remember my mum used to put little strips of ham or bacon in it.

[TwoIfByScream]

Hey, any which way to disguise veggies they won't eat! And yes it would be cauliflower cheese if the macaroni wasn't the main part of it.

"Mummy what is this?"
"Its a bit of macaroni gone wrong, just eat it!"

I take it cauliflower cheese isn't fashionable then. Oh well, I suppose if you are iffy about it you could do broccoli instead.

[helenmumof2]

cauliflower cheese is lush a big plate of that and some mash is my favourite dinner in fact i think i'll have it tonight!!!!!!!!!!

[sparkly1]

Twig, can you explain the roux and milk thing for the white sauce, please?

[Trinityrhino]

I always out a little mustard powder into the cheese sauce, goes very nicely with cheese