Sanna, I am doing this for you.

Someday I will remember to take my camera with me to the kitchen.  Until then, this will all just remain very boring looking text.  Unless I can change font!

Which I totally can!  Although, it's not really that wide a variety or significant improvement.


So back to roman it is. 




Back to my original thought.


I never buy box mac and cheese anymore.  Not because it isn't delicious on occasion, it is.  Mostly when I'm at home eating it off of small, pink, rectangular plates my mother has had since my much, much younger days.  As tempting as the thirty cent boxes might be, I am convinced it is WAY cheaper to make my own from whatever shape noodle I please and the simple ingredients needed for a simple roux.


Don't be scared by the x, it's French, which means you don't have to pronounce it but it will taste delicious.


I have been making this roux the same way for a few years now, but today I shifted my recipe and it turned out far better.  So I thought I would share it.  Here goes.


Homemade Mac and Cheese with Roux!


Ingredients:
water
noodles (small shells are nice)
butter
salt
black pepper
flour
milk
cheese (I generally use cheddar)


Tools:
two small pots
two stirring utensils (rubber spatulas are the best)


Instructions:
1. Fill one pot with water for noodles and set to boil.  Add noodles and a dash of salt when boiling.  Stir occasionally to keep them from sticking to the bottom.


2. Melt 1-2 tablespoons of butter in the other pot.
3. When melted, add a dash of salt and a sprinkle of pepper.  Mix up.
4. Add flour 1 tablespoon at a time (should be about 3) mixing after each addition, or until the mixture is just grainy and is beginning to stay together.


5. When noodles are done, strain them and put however many you plan on eating in your bowl.
6. Scrape the roux out onto the noodles.
7. Pour 1.5 tablespoons (ish) milk onto the roux.
8. Grate as much cheese as you think necessary on top of this all.


9. Mix it up and eat it.  YUM.




That looks a lot bigger and more complicated than it is.  It seriously only takes as long as it takes to cook noodles.  I just broke it down into very simple steps.  




I'm going to go cough myself to sleep now.