who doesn’t love Mac N’ Cheese, right?

well… you REALLY have to love cheese to love this recipe – it calls for 2 1/2 pounds of it!  but it’s soooooooooo delicious… our entire family absolutely loves this meal and we never need anything to go with it! (but, being the “balanced meal freak”, i can’t not have a veggie with this!)  not to mention it makes a GIANT 13×9″ pan full, so we usually end up having it on a Friday and then eat it for the rest of the weekend!

i stumbled onto this little gem on Pinterest; i was looking for a really good, REALLY CHEESY mac n’ cheese.  i had to browse through several before i found this one, courtesy of The Hungry Mouse.  it was like a “EUREKA!” moment… as soon as i saw “2 1/2 pounds of cheese” i was like, YES.  anything that involves 2 1/2 pounds of cheese can’t possibly be anything besides the best meal. ever.  i mean, just look at all this cheese:

!!!! !!! !!!!

as Mouse says in her post, “resist the urge to jump in the pot and swim around with your mouth open.”  i almost did.  it’s a good thing she put that warning in there because i was really about to.  it seriously looks like a small, velvety yellow cheese hot tub on your stove.

when it came to my version of this dish, i only changed it minimally – instead of the taleggio, fontina and cheddar cheeses that Mouse uses in her recipe, i used fontina, cheddar and mozzarella.  i couldn’t find taleggio.  guess you have to go to one of those fancy cheese places to get that or something – WalMart and Albertson’s did not have any when i was shopping for this meal.  i *DID* also add a little touch of my own, though, again being the “balanced meal freak” i couldn’t stand that there wasn’t going to be any meat as a part of this meal so i reached for my secret weapon… BACON.  i added a whole package of Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits in with the topping mixture.  everything is better with bacon.  even chocolate.  just trust me on that.

here is the recipe for Mouse’s Ultimate Mac N’ Cheese.  she has FANTASTIC step-by-step directions with pictures.  even the least kitchen-savvy peeps could make this – it’s really easy.  and i love the sprinkling of wit that Mouse uses throughout the post as well.  it’s like dinner theater except you have to make the dinner yourself and you get the entertainment before the meal, but nonetheless an excellent post and a phenomenal dish.  she has TONS of other great recipes too, so if you like to cook, you should definitely check out her blog:  The Hungry Mouse.

well, what are you waiting for?!  go make this right now!!!  2 1/2 lbs. of cheese!!!  and don’t forget the bacon 

Tags: mac n' cheese, recipes, the hungry mouse

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