I love mac and cheese. I love it almost as I love chocolate and peanut butter. I finally perfected my recipe for it. The secret is the sauce. It's almost like a gravy, but more...saucy.
1 box pasta
1 lb ground sausage*
4 slices bacon
1 1/2 TBSP flour
1 cup whole milk**
salt
pepper
dried parsley
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese***
3 slices bread
1/4 cup yellow mustard
Cook pasta according to package directions. Cook sausage om high heat until barely pink, then finish cooking on medium. Cut bacon into small pieces. Remove sausage, leaving as much grease in the pan as possible. Put bacon in the same pan and fry as you would normally fry bacon. Remove cooked bacon and put flour in the grease that you left in the pan. When flour and grease are thoroughly mixed, pour in milk. Use a whisk to incorporate flour and milk. Add salt and pepper to taste and throw in a healthy dose of parsley. Add 1 1/2 cups of cheese and whisk briskly. Lightly toast bread and tear into small pieces. If you haven't drained you're cooked pasta, now would probably be a good time to do so. Mix cheese sauce and pasta together. Add sausage and mustard. Pour into casserole dish and sprinkle bread pieces and bacon on top. Cover with remaining cheese. Broil in oven, on low, for 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted, and slightly bubbly.
Well, you have just successfully made every kid's favourite meal. Congratulations! Now stop looking at it and eat it.
*I use Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage. It has just the right amount of flavour that makes the mac and cheese perfect.
**I never use any other milk besides whole milk. Skim milk, 2%, not milk. It's white water with vague milk flavouring.
***Cheese. Why would anyone ever want to eat low fat or cheese made with 2% milk. And not Velveeta or American either. Pure Wisconsin cheese is good, and so is anything that's not low fat, Velveeta or American.
1 box pasta
1 lb ground sausage*
4 slices bacon
1 1/2 TBSP flour
1 cup whole milk**
salt
pepper
dried parsley
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese***
3 slices bread
1/4 cup yellow mustard
Cook pasta according to package directions. Cook sausage om high heat until barely pink, then finish cooking on medium. Cut bacon into small pieces. Remove sausage, leaving as much grease in the pan as possible. Put bacon in the same pan and fry as you would normally fry bacon. Remove cooked bacon and put flour in the grease that you left in the pan. When flour and grease are thoroughly mixed, pour in milk. Use a whisk to incorporate flour and milk. Add salt and pepper to taste and throw in a healthy dose of parsley. Add 1 1/2 cups of cheese and whisk briskly. Lightly toast bread and tear into small pieces. If you haven't drained you're cooked pasta, now would probably be a good time to do so. Mix cheese sauce and pasta together. Add sausage and mustard. Pour into casserole dish and sprinkle bread pieces and bacon on top. Cover with remaining cheese. Broil in oven, on low, for 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted, and slightly bubbly.
Well, you have just successfully made every kid's favourite meal. Congratulations! Now stop looking at it and eat it.
*I use Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage. It has just the right amount of flavour that makes the mac and cheese perfect.
**I never use any other milk besides whole milk. Skim milk, 2%, not milk. It's white water with vague milk flavouring.
***Cheese. Why would anyone ever want to eat low fat or cheese made with 2% milk. And not Velveeta or American either. Pure Wisconsin cheese is good, and so is anything that's not low fat, Velveeta or American.
