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Kraft's little blue box is a SCAM!
Like, seriously, I only recently tried making mac & cheese myself.
1. Start water boiling for pasta, put in elbow macaroni when boiling. Meanwhile,
2. Melt 2 tbsp butter in a saucepan.
3. Add 2 tbsp flour to butter and stir together into a slurry (a "roux").
4. Add a cup of milk, salt and pepper. Heat, stirring occasionally, until thick and gloopy. Maybe five minutes.
5. Turn off heat, add cheese as desired. I generally go half cheddar and half colby/jack for the right mix of flavor and texture.
6. Around this time, your noodles should be done. Drain. Pour generous quantities of goopy cheesy goodness on top, stir together.
At this point, you have a superior product to the Kraft variety, at less cost, in comparable time, for slightly more effort. You could put it all in a casserole, bake it with bread crumbs, etc. but I'm lazy so I don't. The cheese sauce also goes well with basically anything else. I made too much--or rather too few noodles--so I have a bowl of the extra slathered on top of my wife's white acre peas (a kind of mind-blowingly generic little bean people in the South like for some reason). Tastes fine.
DON'T USE THE BLUE BOX. IT ISN'T ANY EASIER, IT TASTES WEIRD, AND IT HAS FAKE COLORS AND CRAP.
1. Start water boiling for pasta, put in elbow macaroni when boiling. Meanwhile,
2. Melt 2 tbsp butter in a saucepan.
3. Add 2 tbsp flour to butter and stir together into a slurry (a "roux").
4. Add a cup of milk, salt and pepper. Heat, stirring occasionally, until thick and gloopy. Maybe five minutes.
5. Turn off heat, add cheese as desired. I generally go half cheddar and half colby/jack for the right mix of flavor and texture.
6. Around this time, your noodles should be done. Drain. Pour generous quantities of goopy cheesy goodness on top, stir together.
At this point, you have a superior product to the Kraft variety, at less cost, in comparable time, for slightly more effort. You could put it all in a casserole, bake it with bread crumbs, etc. but I'm lazy so I don't. The cheese sauce also goes well with basically anything else. I made too much--or rather too few noodles--so I have a bowl of the extra slathered on top of my wife's white acre peas (a kind of mind-blowingly generic little bean people in the South like for some reason). Tastes fine.
DON'T USE THE BLUE BOX. IT ISN'T ANY EASIER, IT TASTES WEIRD, AND IT HAS FAKE COLORS AND CRAP.
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