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Need a good baked mac and cheese recipe
I know this is asked all the time, I have made a few recipes and all were grainy or dry. I need to find without those 2 problems.
Re: Need a good baked mac and cheese recipe
Here's mine!
Old Fashioned Baked Macaroni and Cheese
This is my family's favorite. We have always omitted the pimento.
http://www.disneyhistoryinstitute.com/2009/11/friday-guest-historian-day-macaroni.html
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I'm curious, did you make the kind with a bechamel (butter, flour, milk= white sauce)? If you did & it was dry, then I would say you prob just need more bechamel. If you did & it was grainy, maybe you didn't whisk it enough- when you put the flour into the melted butter you need to whisk continually so it blends well & cooks off the raw flour flavor, and then add milk slowly & continue to whisk so no lumps/grains before you add any cheese to it.
If you didn't make one with a bechamel then definitely do!!! I think almost all the recipes ppl posted have bechamel... once you have the basic sauce, then it is mostly about which cheeses you add...some ppl also put dry mustard in, which I personally like but some people don't. There are a lot of recipes out there w/ different cheeses, which I'm sure are delicious (I tend to make it for my kids & don't really want to spend a ton of $ on cheeses).
I make mine basic- bechamel with sharp cheddar and then I add chopped ham & chopped cooked broccoli to make it a full meal for my kids. A lot of people seem to like the Pioneer Woman's recipe...she adds an egg which maybe (?? not sure) gives a slightly more stuck together consistency, not a preference of mine, but it is a popular recipe.
Good luck!