{"id":303,"date":"2012-02-09T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-04-13T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T23:51:42","slug":"a-to-die-for-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/a-to-die-for-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"A to die for Macaroni and Cheese Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese-closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of Macaroni and Cheese Recipe\" title=\"Macaroni and Cheese Recipe Closeup Picture\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese-closeup.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese-closeup-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closeup of Macaroni and Cheese Recipe<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis is the best recipe for Macaroni and Cheese we&#8217;ve ever made. It has the essential quality that we feel a good Mac and Cheese recipe has that the cheese mixture absolutely sticks to and surrounds the macaroni. Look at the picture above and you&#8217;ll see how the cheese has spread well. Try this recipe yourself and provide a comment on your thoughts please. We believe strongly that this is THE Macaroni and Cheese Recipe.<\/p>\n<h2>Bread Crumb Topping<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>12 ounces of dried elbow macaroni\n<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons butter\n<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup plain breadcrumbs\n<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp grated Parmesan Cheese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Melt the butter in a small non-stick skillet.\n<\/li>\n<li>Add bread crumbs and Parmesan Cheese\n<\/li>\n<li>Mix well. Remove to a small bowl. Set aside.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>The Splendid Cheese Sauce<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>4 tablespoons butter\n<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup flour\n<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups milk\n<\/li>\n<li>2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese\n<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp ground nutmeg\n<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp cayenne pepper\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat Oven to 500&deg; f.\n<\/li>\n<li>Bring 3 quarts of water to boil in a large pan. Add macaroni noodles. Stir.\n<\/li>\n<li>Make a Rue: Melt 2 tbsp butter in a 3 quart non-stick saucepan. Add flour and stir until bubbly and the flour begins to lightly brown.\n<\/li>\n<li>Add milk to the saucepan, while stirring thoroughly to blend the milk and flour (a whisk works well).\n<\/li>\n<li>Heat slowly, stirring often until milk is hot and just near boiling. Whisk together well.\n<\/li>\n<li>Stir in cheese and mix until melted through.\n<\/li>\n<li>Mix in the nutmeg and cayenne pepper. Set aside, the pasta should be done at this point.\n<\/li>\n<li>Drain pasta well. Pour the cheese mix over the macaroni noodles and carefully stir to blend well.\n<\/li>\n<li>Spoon the cheese\/macaroni mixture into 4 x 4&#8243; diameter ramkins or similar sized oven safe bowls about 2&#8243; deep.\n<\/li>\n<li>Top each bowl with 1\/4 of the breadcrumb mixture.\n<\/li>\n<li>Place in the oven and heat until the bowls are bubbly 5 to 7 minutes. Remove and allow to cool for 4 to 5 minutes before serving.\n<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"Serving of Delicious Macaroni and Cheese \" title=\"Delicious Macaroni and Cheese \" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/macaroni-and-cheese-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delicious Macaroni and Cheese <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111490898261561452998?rel=author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mschroebel150x150.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Author: Matthew Schroebel\" title=\"Author: Matthew Schroebel\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best recipe for Macaroni and Cheese we&#8217;ve ever made. It has the essential quality that we feel a good Mac and Cheese recipe has that the cheese mixture absolutely sticks to and surrounds the macaroni. Look at the picture above and you&#8217;ll see how the cheese has spread well. Try this recipe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasta","tag-macaroni-and-cheese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiceplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}