Mac & Cheese

[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.

[badgercat]

I grew up calling the stuff in the blue box Kraft Dinner because that's what my parents grew up calling it (and as I understand, what they still call it in Canada, rumored to be because it doesn't meet their government regulations for actual cheese content to actually be able to put Cheese in the name )

Anyway, one of my mom's quick-and-easy specialties was Kraft Dinner & Krab Meat--she'd sautee some onions and celery in butter, heat up some of that lump imitation-crab meat in the pan, and then would mix it all in with the prepared Kraft mix. It probably sounds bizarre, but it's delightful. It'll probably always be a comfort food for me.

[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.