Mac-n-cheese

[coskigirl]

So when are we meeting at Mizuna @SBrown and @SkiNurse?

 

[Carl Kuck]

Vegetable rotelli, Havarti with dill, roasted garlic Alfredo sauce, and bacon. Yeah, that worked.

 

[SBrown]

So when are we meeting at Mizuna @SBrown and @SkiNurse?

Have you been there?

 

[Blue Streak]

OK.
Lobster
Pasta
Cheese (anywhere from to , depending on the cheese)
I just don't get what makes using elbow macaroni so clever.
What's wrong with lobster cannelloni?
i think we have a controversy here

 

[Blue Streak]

Phil,
You better shut this one down, before it gets ugly.

 

[coskigirl]

Have you been there?

No.

 

[Philpug]

Tortellini Alfredo with blackened shrimp & scallops. Does that count?

 

[SBrown]

no

 

[coskigirl]

Oh, and I like my mac-n-cheese to have cumin in it. I grew up with my dad adding it to even the blue box stuff and to this day, unless it's a fancy restaurant version, it just doesn't taste right without it.

 

[Blue Streak]

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Tortellini Alfredo with blackened shrimp & scallops. Does that count?

No respect for scallops

 

[Brian Likes Pow]

Lobster, spinach, cavatapi, aged provolone sauce and a little truffle oil if that floats your boat.

My favorite has been orzo ( you need to cook this in chicken stock and finish with butter), an aged gouda sauce...nice gouda like Rembrandt and maybe mix in some gruyere, crispy pork belly lardons and scallion. Top with crumbs and hit it under the broiler real quick. This one is rich!

 

[SBrown]

Shouldn't macaroni and cheese be required to have both macaroni and cheese?

 

[Brian Likes Pow]

Orzo is macaroni and gouda is cheese

 

[Monique]

Orzo is macaroni and gouda is cheese

I buy cavatappi to be macaroni (had to look up a new word!), but orzo? No.

 

[Brian Likes Pow]

Macaroni is pasta, pasta is macaroni.

 

[SBrown]

I buy cavatappi to be macaroni (had to look up a new word!), but orzo? No.

Yeah, that's what I meant. I know gouda is cheese, but orzo isn't macaroni. Cavatappi and other small tubular ones are ok. I tried egg noodles but that was only because it's all I had. It wasn't mac n cheese. Fettucine alfredo isn't either.

 

[SBrown]

Macaroni is pasta, pasta is macaroni.

Nope. Macaroni is tubular pasta.

Otherwise we could call half of Italian dishes mac n cheese. Lasagna has pasta and cheese but it isn't mac n cheese.

 

[Dave Petersen]

My son's pic - he loves Noodles & Co. Mac & Cheese.

 

[Monique]

I'm feeling like buying one of those heinous GF mac n cheese prepackaged monstrosities just because of this thread. God help me, if I could still eat the stuff in the blue box, I'm sure I would. I spent much of college surviving on Kraft Deluxe mac n cheese, with the prepackaged orange goop AND BROCCOLI. Just enough to occasionally dot the orange with green.

 

[Brian Likes Pow]

Nope. Macaroni is tubular pasta.

Otherwise we could call half of Italian dishes mac n cheese. Lasagna has pasta and cheese but it isn't mac n cheese.

Ok technically you are correct. Orzo and cheese it is then