The Best Mac N Cheese
"This is a recipe that I tweeked from the back of the San Georgio macaroni box. It has become a favorite. People - this is NOT calorie friendly, VERY VERY FATTENING!! If you do not want to use the wine, just replace with milk (5 cups) and add some other seasonings, like Basil, Rosemary or Thyme. Use what ever makes your taste buds happy!!!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
8-12
ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) box macaroni noodles
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter
- 1⁄2 cup flour
- salt and pepper
- garlic powder
- 4 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1⁄2 cup white wine
- 4 cups cheese
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F Make pasta and set aside. DO NOT OVERCOOK!
- In a 3 qt stew pot, melt the butter over med heat. Then add the flour and blend completely. Now add the seasonings and, stirring constantly, Brown the flour mixture, about 10-15 minutes. Lower the heat if the flour mixture starts to brown too fast.
- Now add the 1st cup milk. Be careful with that first cup (no, you didn't ruin it. The additional milk will pull it back together).
- Now add the rest of the milk along with the white wine and stir constantly until it starts to simmer and thicken - about 20-30 minutes.
- Now add 3 1/2 cups of cheese to sauce.
- Stir until completely blended. Add noodles and pour into a 3 qt casserole dish.
- Cover top with last 1/2 cup of cheese and put in oven for 30 minutes.
- Let sit 20 minutes before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Daniele1969
Rockville, MD
I live in Rockville, MD which is 20 minutes north of Washington DC. I love to cook, read, go bike riding with my Hubby, Salsa dancing with Hubby, cook out with all our friends and travel. My favorite cookbook is one my mother wrote, From My Grandmother's Kitchen by Viviane Miner. It is a Safardic cookbook and has every single recipe my mother has ever made. I used to have a BIG black cat named Danzig, but he passed away the summer of 2005. We now have 2 cats, a calico who is mostly white (AH! White hair everywhere)and a black and white "Tuxedo" cat (He looks like he's wearing black tuxedo tails) They're names...Lilo and Stitch! And as pet-peeves go - why can't people use the ear piece for their cell phones when driving their cars?!
I was never really into cooking when I was younger. Even when I was just out of college, I was living on Can openers and Mircowaves. I don't even know when the change happened. All of a sudden, I wanted to cook. I wanted to bring joy to everyone'e mouths. I wanted to be.....a chef. Well, I've come a long way from the can opener; I put it down and just never looked back. Now the microwave is just a big defroster and I use the can opener occasionally (hey, friends are friends! Just because I grew doesn't mean I had to completely dump my old friends. Right?).
