My Mom made the best baked mac and cheese - not the kinds where you cooked elbow macaroni and poured melted velvetta cheese over it - her's was great. Anyway, there was no written recipe, just something she perfected over the years and from watching and helping her for so long I can just make it. One day I made some for friends and one of them wanted the recipe for her daughter, boy what I time I had writing it out. I explained to her that there are a lot of steps involved but really not that hard. I don't normally give out recipes like this because I need to do a lot of explaining and I detail all the steps involved because I don't want anyone dissatisified with their results. Needless to say this friends daughter had no problem with my recipe, even without exact measurements, and makes it all the time - it is now her family's favorite dish.