Welcome to the get-go e'er Crazy Cooking Challenge! I'm thrilled to hold upwards participating inward this challenge, hosted yesteryear too the brain-child of Tina at Mom's Crazy Cooking.
What's the Challenge, y'all ask? Well, permit me tell ya.
Crazy Cooking Challenge is a grouping of nutrient bloggers getting together once a month to lead you one featured nutrient item for each month. We volition all brand this 1 item, but, of course, we will each arrive inward our ain exceptional way. Because that's what nosotros exercise best! - nosotros position our ain personal spin on the materials nosotros make. Sound fun? I intend so!
So expect for us to shipping service our Challenge on the seventh of each month. And get-go upwards - which y'all belike already figured out yesteryear the photograph at the start of this shipping service - is macaroni and cheese! Ahhhhhh, 1 of my favorites.
Now, the rules of The Challenge are that we can't but brand our ain personal recipe favorite, or a recipe that we have posted before. We are to make a new-to-us recipe, or to purpose a new-to-us method, found somewhere out in blog-land.
When I learned that our get-go challenge was macaroni too cheese, I straight off idea of a macaroni and cheese recipe posted yesteryear 1 of my favorite bloggers, Nicole at Simple Stovetop Macaroni too Cheese.
I was drawn to this detail recipe for iii reasons:
1. It was made yesteryear Nicole. I dearest reading her blog.
2. It was made on the stovetop instead of baked, similar I normally do.
3. Nicole used Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese, made yesteryear Cabot Creamery inward Cabot, Vermont. I grew upwards twenty minutes from Cabot Creamery too am a loyal fan. After moving to North Carolina, I initially had Cabot cheese shipped to me. Fortunately, it is at nowadays readily available throughout the expanse hence I no longer accept to ship. Yay!
Given my dearest of Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar, y'all volition notice it really ironic, then, that 1 of the modifications I made to this recipe is to purpose Smoked Gouda instead of the cheddar. That doesn't hateful I don't dearest the original! I do dearest it!!! And highly recommend it. I but wanted to endeavour a unlike twist. And the Smoked Gouda version is fab, also ... If I exercise tell hence myself.
The other alteration I made to the master recipe is to purpose cavatappi pasta instead of elbow macaroni. Cavatappi is a fun twisty-shaped pasta. See inward the flick below? Doesn't it expect fun?
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| Fun & twisty cavatappi |
So, whether y'all pick out to become amongst the original cheddar-based recipe or this Smoked Gouda version, I intend you're inward for a treat! I know I sure enjoyed both versions!
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| (By the agency ... I made this bowl dorsum inward my pottery-throwing days. I'll acquire dorsum to pottery someday... someday.) |
Stovetop Smoked Gouda Macaroni and Cheese
Source: Adapted from Heat Oven to 350
Ingredients
fourteen oz. cavatappi pasta (or elbow macaroni)
1/4 c. unsalted butter1/4 c. flour
two c. milk
1/4 tsp. salt
iv oz. shredded Monterey Jack cheese
iv oz. shredded smoked gouda cheese
Directions
2. While H2O is coming to a boil for the pasta, melt butter inward a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add flour too whisk together. Cook for 1 minute.
3. Slowly add together milk, but a flake at a time, whisking good afterwards each add-on until the milk is incorporated. Cook too stir mixture until it thickens, almost 4-5 minutes. Remove milk mixture from rut too stir inward cheeses until melted.
4. Drain pasta too toss amongst cheese sauce. Season to gustatory modality amongst additional salt, if needed.
Enjoy!
