Mac & Cheese

[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