Onebyone

Sometimes I bake mine with a topping but really can't tell any difference in the creamingness. I use melting cheese, sharp cheddar usually Cabot white cheddar as it is extremely sharp, half and half milk. More sauce than pasta. Sometimes I add a tomato sauce and cream cheese to the cheese sauce for a different taste.

QuiltE

aaaah!!
Combining your Italian and Dairy heritage, for surely the best of the best!!

ptquilts

Home Ec was pretty useless when I was in Jr. HS, but one thing I did learn was how to make a white sauce. It has been useful through the years. How to make tailor tacks, not so useful.

QuiltE

You have me giggling thinking of those nasty tailor tacks!
Mine go back to a 4-H memory.
When we did them in Home Ec, I think my my brain went, oh well, here we go again!

TBH I was bored in Home Ec, as they didn't teach anything new that I had not learned in 4-H or at home with my Mom. Dropped it after the mandatory one year, because of that.

SusieQOH

I went to Catholic schools and we didn't have Home Ec! Seems like we spent an awful lot of time in church. Geeeezzzzzzzz

Lady Diana

The best M & C recipe I have found is Trish Yearwood's......crock pot... full of yummy Ingredients.
Family appoints me for the dish for all gatherings. Look up her recipe, she has a you tube video.

QuiltE

Care to share the recipe?
I'm always game for a new Best Ever ... especially when it is in the crockpot!
Thanks!

Jo Anne B.

The Smoked Gouda Mac and Cheese recipe I use can be found online at Joyous Apron. The small(tiny) bacon bits are in the smoked gouda cheese that I use, there are versions without the bacon bits. Hope you try it and enjoy! Jo

bearisgray

We also had to learn how to make white sauce - which has become one of the more useful things that I learned.

(Probably sometime between 1955 and 1957)

Lady Diana

Trish Yearwoods recipe:
https://spicysouthernkitchen.com/tri...ac-and-cheese/

I use a little less milk and add whopping cream.
I also cook my macaroni before putting in crock pot.

Enjoy