Mac & Cheese

[GLC1968]

It's a shame, but I really don't like broccoli.

That is a shame - broccoli rocks! Though, I hate it with cheese sauce so I'm weird.

I actually really LOVE putting frozen or canned corn in my mac and cheese. It makes it look like barf, but it tastes amazing and it extends the servings as well. Comfort food though - not health food.

[Veronica]

I LOVE corn - especially fresh corn on the cob, dripping with butter and some salt...

My trainer calls corn a useless vegetable. I don't eat it so much anymore.

BTW - well all the mac & cheese would fit in my bowl, it would not fit in my tummy.

Veronica

[katluvr]

Sadly I probably could eat the full 2.5 servings!
K

[Zen]

I like to put in broccoli and ham

[nscrbug]

Sadly I probably could eat the full 2.5 servings!
K

X2!!! Infact, it wasn't too long ago that I would REGULARLY eat a full box of Kraft Mac N Cheese, as a meal... I have NO DOUBT that I couldn't put down 2.5 servings, right this very minute...but I would feel too guilty about it these days.

Linda

[colby]

I like to add crushed red peppers to mac and cheese. Sometimes a veggie dog or veggie pepperoni/lunch meat cut up in to pieces. I separate it into two servings before I eat it so I don't eat both servings even if I could (I guess technically I split it in to 1.25 servings). I always make it with less butter, though. Sometimes we get the "deluxe" version which is great with chopped fresh red/orange peppers, and we add whatever cheese we have that we think will make it tastier (pepper jack, aged sharp white cheddar, and any sharp regular cheddar work great). It makes it higher in calories/fat, but we make less and eat less.

My brother prefers the shaped ones (toy story, spongebob, wheels, spirals) because "they hold more cheese", though fewer servings come in a box.

My favorite fresh made mac and cheese is from pike place chowder, where they prepare it fresh and add dungeness crab or smoked salmon. Yum. I also have had a few tasty truffle mac and cheeses (not chocolate truffle, that would be gross ). My husband and I made it a couple times with smoked/white cheeses (combined smoked gouda, aged white sharp, and a couple others, I think), that was also tasty.

Mmmm, mac and cheese.

Corn... is a grain, not a vegetable. But I still love it on the cob, and the sweet white corn. We just don't eat it as often, I've switched my fam to a lot of salads and other veggies, and tried to switch potatoes to sweet potatoes (partially working).

[Veronica]

Corn... is a grain, not a vegetable.

Americans tend to eat it as their vegetable though - with the big pile of potato salad as their starch.

Veronica

[oxysback]

I actually really LOVE putting frozen or canned corn in my mac and cheese. It makes it look like barf, but it tastes amazing and it extends the servings as well. Comfort food though - not health food.

Funny. My daughter does the same thing!

[badger]

my mom used to make macaroni au gratin (I guess an oolala fancy way of saying mac and cheese) with corn and ham. I use frozen corn (and peas!) in a lot of my dishes, it adds that hint of sweetness.

Lately I make mine with soy milk. I would never serve it to anyone as I don't put nearly enough cheese, but it's nice and yummy to me.

[GLC1968]

Funny. My daughter does the same thing!

Ah ha! I knew I liked that girl...she has great taste!

[Owlie]

I make mac & cheese with ham. The recipe is supposed to have peas as well, but I hate peas.

And oh, corn on the cob. I couldn't eat it for about six years because of braces. Or, so my orthodontist said.

[Zen]

Maybe I'll start the Mac and Cheese Truck

[channlluv]

I read somewhere that raw corn is a vegetable; cooked corn is a starch.

Still, I mix silver queen sweet corn and English peas and tuna in my mac and cheese, and I use an organic whole grain brand I get at Henry's and Trader Joe's -- Annie's, I think, or Amy's. I forget.

My 12-year-old loves it.

Roxy

[Zen]

I use the recipe from the back of the Muellers macaroni box.

[shootingstar]

I read somewhere that raw corn is a vegetable; cooked corn is a starch.

Still, I mix silver queen sweet corn and English peas and tuna in my mac and cheese, and I use an organic whole grain brand I get at Henry's and Trader Joe's -- Annie's, I think, or Amy's. I forget.

My 12-year-old loves it.

Roxy

Doesn't cooked corn release the natural sugars in some way..?

Long time since I've had Mac 'n Cheese. Years. Maybe even nearly 3 decades ago. But when I did, I mixed sauteed onions, garlic and mushrooms in cooking Mac 'n Cheese. Delicious.

Or with chopped cauliflower. Lots of other variations by cooking it with other chopped veggies.

I just couldn't resist adding something. Mac 'n Cheese by itself..is abit boring to me. I also wanted to offset the heaviness with veggies, onions or garlic cooked with it. Also a distraction from university studies at that time by cooking with abit more snap.