Chow Delicious!
posted by on July 17 at 12:20 PM
So a couple days ago, I put out a call for macaroni and cheese recipes. I received, via comments and e-mail, 12 recipes. I will make them all, I promise, even if it takes me a year.
But for various reasons I tried Bethany’s recipe from the Silver Palate Cookbook first. One of my primary reasons had to do with the fact that it looked the cheesiest and involved a roux, which is something that I like in my macaroni and cheese. The other important reason is that I was making it for a going-away party, and the bread initials on Bethany’s recipe seemed like a cheap and easy way to pay tribute. She’s right when she says that “The bread-monogram may seem overly Martha, but people will fucking love it, including you:” it was easy and was a big hit at the dinner.
And it was, as they say, motherfucking delicious. It didn’t take a whole lot of work—anything that takes less than twenty minutes to prepare isn’t a labor-intensive meal, in my book—and it was quite possibly the cheesiest mac and cheese I’ve ever had, without just being a bunch of cheese dumped on macaroni, if you catch my drift. (I didn’t take a picture because I’ve never been able to make food look photo-worthy.)
The only thing I’d change, if I had it all to do over again, would be to add just a touch of dill or something like that to make it a little more complex. But I will definitely make this recipe again, and you should give it a shot, too. Cheers to you, Ms. Clement, on your excellent recipe. Thanks.
This sounds so delicious, that I have to go home and make it for dinner tonight. Yum! I think we'll skip the monogram though.
cheese makes you fat.
Paul, I hope someone sent you Alton Brown's recipe - that involves a roux too. If not, just search for it at foodtv.com. It's yummy.
@ 2, cheese also makes you happy. Seattle has enough skinny basket cases.
Seattle has a lot of skinny white boys
Cheese rocks. I knew someone once who didn't like cheese (because his mommy told him that cheese gives you diarrhea) and he was a bad, bad man. Are you a bad, bad man too, max solomon?
Someone please remember to repost the recipe in mid-November, when I'll be in dire need of comfort food.
yeah, I agree with NapoleonXIV. This is a cold weather food. You now have me craving seasonally inappropriate food.
What next? Strawberry Shortcake and corn on the cob longings in January?
Has all of this excitement been generated by the tillamook mac & cheese contest. Yum 25#s of free cheese
Just a little dijon mustard really perks up any mac n cheese.
Dill - yeah, that's the perfect thing, especially around this time of year.
A teaspoon or two of dry mustard in the cheese+roux gives the flavor depth (but doesn't make it hot). Now I need to go make mac & cheese...
more than the average person, i love cheese. there are few types of cheese on this planet i haven't tried.
but it makes you fat. once i reduced my cheese intake to a shaving of parmesan on top of pasta or fresh mozzarella or goat cheese in a salad, i lost 25 pounds.
Dill? Are you nuts?
You didn't even try my canned-tuna-and-frozen-peas version, did you?
Were any of the recipes for vegan mac-and-"cheese"? If so, please share! If not, then your work, Paul, is not yet done.
Vegans need comfort food too, and vegan M&C, much like the souffle, surely counts among the Japanese calligraphy of the world's best-loved comfort foods.
Nutritional yeast is involved, that much I already know...
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