Poshed up macaroni cheese.

kathrynha

Oakdene wrote: »

As for mac n cheese I adore pasta, I could live off it but I have been scared off mac n cheese following horrifying school dinners!!!

I was put off it as a child by the tinned stuff, and wouldn't eat it at all, but then I lived in the US for a while, and got given some home made mac cheese and loved it.

LameWolf

I use pasta fusilli (twists) rather than macaroni, and I make my cheese sauce with diced onion, diced Qu0rn bacon-style slices, chopped cherry tomatoes, mixed herbs, and extra extra mature Cheddar from the farmers market.

maryb

I love adding leeks and bacon to macaroni cheese

PasturesNew

I tend to like my food fairly plain, with the minimum of ingredients, so I've always been happy enough with plain mac/cheese.

If I HAD to "do more" to it I'd slice a tomato on top and grill it so it goes brown .... but, in all honesty, "there are no points for presentation" here and to do more would involve having those other things in the house .... so the fewer the ingredients the better it works in a single household.

phizzimum

In our house we love it served with Sauerkraut. Got a taste for it on holiday in Austria, and was pleased to find that Waitrose sell it here.

DigForVictory

Whenever I cook macaroni cheese (real white sauce, carefully added cheeses, over heaps of pasta, the menfolk appear and demand I add bacon.
They are Really Not given to vegetarian notions.

When we're low on cheese & bacon I'll still *call* it 'macaroni cheese with bacon' but sling in chunks of colourful peppers, petit pois, sweetcorn & bump up the amount of freshly ground black pepper. The chaps wolf it all with splendidly little fuss. "Poshed up" it ain't but stretched further definitely.

Add crab?! I can't always afford enough bacon...

minimad1970

I always add bacon and mushrooms and then either mustard powder or a bit of stilton. I mix grated cheese with oats to go on top, or a bashed up bag of crisps mixed with the cheese.

JIL

I have found the product in question and it also has lobster in it, it still sounds odd to me. It's like having cheese with prawns. Doesn't seem right.
Some great ideas, something I did try and enjoyed was a hard boiled egg in the mix.

Here's a link to the said dish

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-The-Best-Canadian-Lobster--Cromer-Crab-Macaroni-Cheese/341694011?sku=341694011&parentContainer=&voucherCode=&dnr=y

In answer to what do you serve with macaroni cheese it's always salad and sometimes crusty bread.
I used to love the tinned version on toast but I got a tin recently and I can't think how I ever ate it.

Pooky

We love ours with gammon and broccoli - I always cook my gammon joints in the slow cooker and save all the bits that are left from cutting up the rest, just enough to add some flavour but not enough to use a whole portion of meat. If I'm making it stretch I might add peas too and some tomatoes on the top and serve with crusty bread for dunking.

alex21

Sun dried tomatoes
Roasted peppers
antipasta such as artichokes
Horseradish