Mama's Mac n cheese
It's too cold outside, so you come back into your house. Your nose is immediately met with the most beautiful scent it’s ever smelled. You don’t know what it is yet, but you know it’s going to be good. Instead of walking to the kitchen, you decide to stay surprised and wait in the living room. Your episode of Dora the Explorer is soon interrupted by your mothers voice calling you for lunch. Yes you think to yourself it's finally time to find out what that delicious aroma is. You arrive at the table and find out it’s mac n cheese. You get flashbacks to the last time you had mac n cheese. That experience didn’t go so well. It turns out you're allergic to yellow food dye, which is found in boxed mac n cheese. Is your mother trying to kill you? You remind her of what happened last time and she tells you it’s homemade mac n cheese. No food dye. You can’t resist the smell. If she really is trying to kill you, you fall for it hook, line and sinker.
This is the best macaroni and cheese you’ve ever had. This might even be the best meal you’ve ever had. It’s so good, you don't even know what to say. You just sit there at your little polka dotted kiddy table staring out the window. Suddenly, your bowl is empty. You try to get all the little pasta particles with the dull edges of your fork. Your mom notices your attempts of trying to magically bring back the mac n cheese. She tells you that there’s more in the pot. You run to the stove and she serves you about the same amount of macaroni you had the first time. Again, you finish it fairly quickly but this time you're too full for a third serving.
You dream about that mac n cheese for five years until you come back from school one day and a very familiar scent fills your nostrils once again. It’s the mac n cheese. You know it. You barely put your bags down before you sit at the table, fork in hand. Your mother serves you and tells you to eat it slowly but you don't listen. You don’t even acknowledge her. You scarf down the bowl and of course, go back for one more serving.
By: Olivia Nasser
Ingredients
Recipe
Step One. Boil the water in a large pot on high heat. Add a pinch of salt to the water. This takes 4-8 minutes .
Step Two. Once the water is boiling, add the macaroni to cook. Make sure to stir the pasta occasionally, roughly every minute. This takes about 7 minutes.
Step Three. Once the pasta is cooked to your liking, pour the pasta into a strainer to get rid of the water. CAREFUL: The contents will be hot. Once all the water is strained, add the pasta back to the pot and turn on low heat.
Step Four. Add the cheese and pepper and salt to the pasta and stir. The cheese should stick to the pasta like glue.
Step Five. Add almost equal portions of mac n cheese to each bowl. Put more in your bowl and less in your sister’s to guarantee a better experience for you.
Step Six. Enjoy after a cold day of tobogganing.
This is the best macaroni and cheese you’ve ever had. This might even be the best meal you’ve ever had. It’s so good, you don't even know what to say. You just sit there at your little polka dotted kiddy table staring out the window. Suddenly, your bowl is empty. You try to get all the little pasta particles with the dull edges of your fork. Your mom notices your attempts of trying to magically bring back the mac n cheese. She tells you that there’s more in the pot. You run to the stove and she serves you about the same amount of macaroni you had the first time. Again, you finish it fairly quickly but this time you're too full for a third serving.
You dream about that mac n cheese for five years until you come back from school one day and a very familiar scent fills your nostrils once again. It’s the mac n cheese. You know it. You barely put your bags down before you sit at the table, fork in hand. Your mother serves you and tells you to eat it slowly but you don't listen. You don’t even acknowledge her. You scarf down the bowl and of course, go back for one more serving.
By: Olivia Nasser
Ingredients
- A mother who will make mac n cheese for you (if you have one you can skip the rest of this recipe, if you don’t have one you can skip this and actually follow this recipe
- Two cups of corkscrew macaroni NOT elbow it ruins the pasta
- three cups of cheddar cheese
- Two cups of parmesan cheese
- Six cups (or a full pot) of water *salted*
- ⅛ tsp. of ground salt
- ⅛ tsp. of salt - not including the salt in the water.
Recipe
Step One. Boil the water in a large pot on high heat. Add a pinch of salt to the water. This takes 4-8 minutes .
Step Two. Once the water is boiling, add the macaroni to cook. Make sure to stir the pasta occasionally, roughly every minute. This takes about 7 minutes.
Step Three. Once the pasta is cooked to your liking, pour the pasta into a strainer to get rid of the water. CAREFUL: The contents will be hot. Once all the water is strained, add the pasta back to the pot and turn on low heat.
Step Four. Add the cheese and pepper and salt to the pasta and stir. The cheese should stick to the pasta like glue.
Step Five. Add almost equal portions of mac n cheese to each bowl. Put more in your bowl and less in your sister’s to guarantee a better experience for you.
Step Six. Enjoy after a cold day of tobogganing.