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"...my family loves Outback, especially my two kids, a 6 year old and 250 lbs & my 8 year who weighs in at 300lbs They absolutley love the mac n cheese and I love the 2 for 1 any drink happy hour. Anyways, I keep crashing the car driving home after happy hour and now children services wants to take the kids away, they say I don"t know how to parent. They say I was cruel in naming my 6 y/o Mac and my 8y/o Cheese. Hell, least they is healthy and none of em broken any bones in the crasheses. Damn Goverment needs to stay out of the trailer park. Wees need lower butane prices is what wees need."

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Chili's used to have the best Happy Hour. Hot chicks good food and great HH. That changed about 4 years ago and the place has never been the same. I am too old to drink crap booze. Great place to go with a hangover though.:drink:
 

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well, look at it this way...what demo orders the mac and cheese? Kids...if that kid cant finish his mac and cheese, what are the odds they sell that same kid a dessert? If that kid doesnt finish the mac and cheese on his plate, mom and dad aint buying the same kid an over-priced bowl of ice cream either...they probably realized that the portion was too large for the demo that was buying it. If you consider a family of 4, if one kid doesnt get dessert, neither does the other kid....so they lose at least 2 dessert sales because they loaded up the mac and cheese...

Bingo.
 

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I go out to eat regularily with the kids as a special treat since I travel a ton. If I go out 10 times with them they may get desert 1 time. Of course they will ask every once in a while but the answer is no..can you believe it a parent telling a child they can't have desert...I am a horrible parent..
 

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My mac and cheese changes lives it's so good.

Recently took advantage of the cold weather and made home-made smoked cheese, made the mac with half regular and half smoked cheese and it was out of this world.
 

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My mac and cheese changes lives it's so good.

Recently took advantage of the cold weather and made home-made smoked cheese, made the mac with half regular and half smoked cheese and it was out of this world.

Do you sue a Bechamel base?
 

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Do you sue a Bechamel base?

Yeah I do, always made it that way. Most true mac and cheeses have the crunchy breadcrump top after baking too, but my spin on that now is grating a layer of parmiggiano reggiano and spreading it out on a silpat or parchment sheet and baking till it's crispy. Then I break it up and crumble it on the mac just before serving.

Damn, now I'm hungry.
 

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Yeah I do, always made it that way. Most true mac and cheeses have the crunchy breadcrump top after baking too, but my spin on that now is grating a layer of parmiggiano reggiano and spreading it out on a silpat or parchment sheet and baking till it's crispy. Then I break it up and crumble it on the mac just before serving.

Damn, now I'm hungry.


Good idea, will try that.. I usaully don't do the topping, wifey is picky as hell, I will intro her on that Parm crisp topping.
 

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MacNcheese

8oz white chedder cubed (get the good stuff)
1 oz rendered(cooked and cubed) bacon, or more if you want
2 oz goat cheese (cubed)
2 oz Gorganzola cheese (crumbled)
1 oz of dry white wine (a dry riesling is good)
Cracked black pepper (season to taster)
1 lb of elbows
2-2 1/2 cups of bechamel sauce (do not leave the bechamel while it cooks, it will burn, keep stiring it)



Below is a simple Bechamel, I didn't feel like typing it out
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=bechamel+s...ood/views/White-Sauce-or-Bechamel-Sauce-40046

4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
2 1/2 cups milk, heated
Salt
Freshly ground pepper

Preparation Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until the paste cooks and bubbles a bit, but don't let it brown — about 2 minutes. Add the hot milk, continuing to stir as the sauce thickens. Bring it to a boil. Add salt and pepper to taste, lower the heat, and cook, stirring for 2 to 3 minutes more. Remove from the heat. To cool this sauce for later use, cover it with wax paper or pour a film of milk over it to prevent a skin from forming.


*If you want to add more then 1 lb of elbows u can*


After making the Bechamel slowly add your cheese starting with the chedder and ending with the goat cheese. Next whisk in the white wine and stir in the bacon bits. Hit it with some black pepper and stir in your "cooked" noodles. Pour everything into a baking dish and bake at 350 until a nice crust forms on top.
 

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Very nice, the gorgonzola is a unique touch for sure. A quality bechamel from scratch is the key to a killer mac and cheese IMO.
 

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Here is the recipe I get requests from clients to cook pretty regularly, it's very similar to Cheaters:

4 Cheese Macaroni


-8 oz grated or cubed good quality aged yellow cheddar
-3 oz fontina cheese (fantastic italian melting cheese)
-1-2 oz goat cheese
-1 cup finely grated parmiggiano reggiano
-1 tablespoon whole grain mustard
-2-3 cups bechamel sauce (see above post for method and recipe)
-2 tbsp fresh italian flatleaf parsley
-1 tbsp fresh chopped thyme
salt and pepper to taste
-1lb large macaroni elbows (holds the sauce better)


Preheat oven to 325F. On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silpat, lay out a large, thin and even circle of the grated parmiggiano reggiano, and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown and melted. Set aside and let cool.

Prepare the bechamel sauce as per the recipe above in cheaters post. Add in the whole grain mustard, and cook your pasta. Gradually add in the cheeses until evenly incorporated, then add in your cooked pasta. Empty into a casserole dish and bake for 20 minutes.

Just before serving, take the parmiggiano reggiano crisp and crumble it over the mac and cheese along with some fresh cracked black pepper.

For me, the fresh herbs add a nice bright punch of flavor while still keeping it very, very comforting. The crisp parmiggiano reggiano cracker adds some needed texture as well.
 

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What about the obese adults who consume their BLOOMIN ONION on a regular basis and cutting their lifespans in half?


FH


@):mad: yes sir I think that has 4.3 weeks worth of the daily allowance of fat in one
 

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