“Daddy? Please can you make me some mackincheese, please? With just cheese.”
“Instead of what?”
“Instead of mackin.”
What would you do?
A quick search of our cupboard and the food shelves downstairs revealed that we’re out of the Annie’s organic Mac ‘n’ Cheese, and while we do have an old stash of the regular blue box stuff, I don’t really like serving that to Zoey. I decided to just make up my own, using some rotini noodles I found in the cupboard. They received Zoey’s okay, likely because they happen to come in a blue box.
Evan’s Mackincheese, Hold the Mackin, Add Cheese
1. Bring 8 cups of water and a pinch of kosher salt to a boil in a medium sauce pan.
2. Stir in 2 cups of rotini noodles, return to a boil. Boil for 9 minutes.
3. Drain noodles.
4. Add 1 TBS of butter to the hot pan, return noodles to pan, and stir over low heat.
5. Stir in 1/4 cup milk (I used soy milk since that’s what we have).
6. Stir in 1/2 cup of shredded medium cheddar cheese.
7. Grate some hard cheese like Parmigiano-Reggiano, pecorino romano, or, what we had, Cougar Gold (really a white cheddar with a harder consistency like the two previous cheeses—Rona got it as a gift from one of her students) into the pot, stirring. I grated about a 1-inch cube.
8. Stir in garlic powder to taste and about a 1/4 tsp turmeric to yellow it up a bit.
Deemed highly palatable by our resident preschooler, despite the lack of dehydrated cheese food. And I found it quite tasty, to boot!
January 6th, 2008 at 9:00 am
“Instead of mackin.”
That is too, too cute.