Macaroni and Cheese

If you love macaroni and cheese, but you want to step it up a notch, here is a recipe that you are guaranteed to adore. The following recipe is geared towards adult tastes, but if you want to please your kids, simply change the type of cheese that is listed below. Adults love macaroni and cheese too, but it doesn’t have to come from that little blue box.

You Will Need: one box of shells, elbows, or bowties (up to you); one cup of gruyere cheese; one cup of Emmental cheese; milk; butter; salt and pepper.

Boil: make your macaroni as you would normally, strain, and place it in a baking dish.

To Make: first, melt one pad of butter with a tiny splash of milk over low heat until it forms a sort of paste. Then, add one cup of milk plus one cup of Gruyere and ½ cup of Emmental. Slowly allow the cheese to mix and melt along with the butter and milk, and flavor this mixture with salt and pepper. Once the sauce is done, add it to your cooked macaroni. Mix the entire thing thoroughly, and add the remaining ½ cup of Emmental.

Cook: cook macaroni in a 400 degree oven until the top is brown. Serve this meal with a nice tossed salad and some warm bread.

For kids, use a cheese that they like, and go ahead and experiment with the pasta shapes. Macaroni and cheese straight from the oven is simply divine, ad you will soon make this dish one of your stand by recipes.