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Mac and cheese

a year ago by FauxPseudo to c/cooking

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Box mac and cheese with jalapeno cream sauce, bacon and cilantro.

Cost per person: $1.30

poccalyps 21 points a year ago

My GERD spontaneously combusted just looking at this picture.

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memfree 14 points a year ago

That's almost what my dinner is going to be: boxed mac with sliced up smoky links, extra cheddar, and chopped up yu choy (chinese broccoli).

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tychosmoose 5 points a year ago

Yu choy is such an underappreciated vegetable in the US. It's usually very inexpensive, available at asian groceries all over, and stands in well for other greens. We use it as a 1/2 price (or cheaper) alternative to broccoli rabe in Italian dishes.

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JohnnyEnzyme 4 points a year ago

available at asian groceries all over

I guess there's always something lost when moving from one place to another, but man... the scarcity of Asian groceries (from tiny shops to warehouse size places) around here is a serious, serious bummer.

The typical SE Asian selection at the local supermarket is laughably WASP-y in variety, and the prices are typically 5x-10x what I was spoilt with, back East.

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memfree 4 points a year ago

I agree with everything you said except using it in place of broccoli rabe, which has a delightfully bitter taste unlike either broccoli or yu choy. Broccoli rabe would overpower a mac & cheese dish, but yu choy feels just right.

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tychosmoose 3 points a year ago

Yeah, fair enough. Definitely not as strong flavored.

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CidVicious 8 points a year ago

Why use boxed Mac and cheese as a base, though?

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FauxPseudo 8 points a year ago

Because it's dirt cheap and I'm hungover.

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victorz 4 points a year ago

Hell yeah baby

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Rai 3 points a year ago

Based and why-did-I-do-that-to-myself-oh-yeah-because-it’s-fun-pilled

(I am so hung over)

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FauxPseudo 5 points a year ago

Yesterday I grabbed a case of beer, a pack of cigarettes and some tinned fish and dedicated my day to cleaning and organizing my workshop. I fought until 5:30 in the morning and made tremendous progress.

This was after I could see the surface of half of my work bench.

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Rai 3 points a year ago

I like your chest of drawers. It’s very cute.

My partner and I are almost recovered from being horribly sick. We drank maybe nine or ten claws, did six shots of vodka, and… I’m not even sure what we did last night, other than it was fun. Definitely watched Wild at Heart, at least mostly, and watched Brutalmoose for a while.

Today I have felt like I was dying all day. Food was impossible. Ended up ordering soup. The soup was good.

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IrateAnteater 4 points a year ago

Cheaper and far faster than making Mac and cheese from scratch is my bet.

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CidVicious 1 point a year ago

I dunno, I wouldn't think a cooking sub would consider making a mornay sauce and boiling some noodles to be a real heavy burden. As for the cost maybe? The cheese would be the most expensive component but I think it's probably worth the upgrade to go from powdered cheese to real cheese.

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FauxPseudo 1 point a year ago

Me replying: Sometimes it's the preparation outside the box. You noticed the additional ingredients and processes, right? Cooking is cooking.

Moderator replying: Don't like this post? Post the kind of content you want to see. You currently have zero posts in this group. Complainers without contributions will be weighed accordingly.

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edg 3 points a year ago

Pass the tums, please

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three 2 points a year ago

Save some cilantro for the rest of us.

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FauxPseudo 3 points a year ago

Get your own.

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843563115848 1 point a year ago

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FauxPseudo 1 point a year ago

I need a shadier area. It bolts before it gets bushy because of how hot it gets here.

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nullPointer 2 points a year ago

to add some variety i like to stir in some hot sauce or BBQ sauce or even some chili-p to give the mac a little zing!

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