![]() Make sure to serve this mac and cheese immediately while the cheese is still hot and oh-so gooey. Bake the bacon mac and cheese in the oven or on the grill until the cheese is nice and melty. Transfer the mac and cheese to a baking dish or cast iron skillet. While the bacon and noodles are cooking, make the cheese sauce by making a roux, adding seasonings, and melting in the cheese. Bring a big pot of water to a boil and cook the macaroni noodles according to the instructions on the package. Cook the sliced bacon until nice and crispy. Here’s the 411 on making this tasty treat: It also has those beautiful browned crispy cheese pieces around the edges, and it has bacon! Those salty little morsels of pork love are mixed into the mac and sprinkled on top so every single bite has a little extra boom-boom. It’s rich, it’s creamy, and it has the most amazing stringy melted cheese dripping off of each bite. And probably your husband.)Īfter SEVERAL renditions over the past few years, I love what this mac and cheese has become. (Note: Butternut squash mac and cheese will scare away your kids. I knew it needed a few modifications to match my grown up standards, but it had to be classic enough to not scare away my kids. Then many years later, one of my favorite food blogs posted a recipe for homemade mac and cheese and I got pretty stoked! Homemade mac and cheese?! I didn’t even know you could do that! So I cooked up some stuff from scratch and it was rather decent. So I just stopped eating mac and cheese altogether. I tried the “fancy” boxed mac n cheeses (you know, with the premixed sauce ooze) but it made me gag. I was cool with eating that boxed stuff for a while, but eventually I outgrew it. ![]() So now apply that weird story of my relationship to mac and cheese. And then you get married and have babies. You figure, what the heck, let’s give this another shot! Within months you are inseparable and you are in love and everything is the best ever. Then, years later, you bump into him at a restaurant and he is like super fine and he wants your number, but you hesitate because he was the guy that thought wet willies were a great way to flirt. It’s like that boy you dated your freshman year, and it was alright because you were both pretty immature but you knew it wasn’t love or anything so eventually you parted ways. I feel like there is so much to say about this mac and cheese recipe that I don’t even know where to start! My love of mac and cheese is a strange one. It is easy to make and tasty to eat! You just can’t go wrong with a heaping amount of bacon added to your mac and cheese! This Bacon Mac and Cheese is the grown up version of that comfort food you know and love from your childhood. ![]()
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