The macaroni-and-cheese I was raised on appears to be like nobody else's on *the entire internet*, but it literally could not be easier as long as you have access to pre-grated cheese and can handle lifting a pasta pot and mixing cheese + pasta:
Boil pasta, as much as you think you want. Add garlic to the water! It is tasty. Take cheese (my preferred mix is cheddar, romano, mozzarella, and a dash of parmesan) and *as soon as* the pasta has been drained, pour in cheese. Stir the hell out of it.
If two cups pasta, go for one cup total cheese -- 1/4 c mozz, 1/8 c romano, 1/8 c parm, 1/2 c cheddar is my usual ratio, but if you don't like cheddar obviously feel free to mess around with that. If one cup pasta, 1/2 c cheese, so on and so forth.
The heat of the pasta will melt the cheese pretty fast as long as it's grated fine enough, and then it is delicious and hot and cheesy and easy as hell. Eat!
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Date: 2011-03-31 06:45 am (UTC)Boil pasta, as much as you think you want. Add garlic to the water! It is tasty. Take cheese (my preferred mix is cheddar, romano, mozzarella, and a dash of parmesan) and *as soon as* the pasta has been drained, pour in cheese. Stir the hell out of it.
If two cups pasta, go for one cup total cheese -- 1/4 c mozz, 1/8 c romano, 1/8 c parm, 1/2 c cheddar is my usual ratio, but if you don't like cheddar obviously feel free to mess around with that. If one cup pasta, 1/2 c cheese, so on and so forth.
The heat of the pasta will melt the cheese pretty fast as long as it's grated fine enough, and then it is delicious and hot and cheesy and easy as hell. Eat!