FauxPseudo Boxed mac & cheese hacked
SatansMaggotyCumFartI had boxed man and cheese with leftover pulled pork last night.
Our local fire department just did their semi annual BBQ fundraiser. We looked but didn’t find the $10 to get any of it. We were thinking of making pulled pork mac and some sandwiches.
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 man and cheese
He’s eating people! 😱
Geez all y’all over here acting like you’ve never ate boxed man and cheese before.
With “pulled pork”.
Always with a nice glass of chianti
I regularly smoke big chunks of pork and beef just to shred and mostly freeze so I can later throw on top of stuff. It’s a huge upgrade to instant foods. Smoky instant ramen
There’s a great recipe for that in the book “How to Serve Man”
Long pig
Ive always hated box mac and cheese. I can remember the first time I had it because of the sense of betrayal. How could something I love be so foul?
It’s a love hate thing.
NimaCanadian here - It’s like our national dish. NOBODY calls it “mac and cheese” up here. Don’t think of it as mac and cheese. don’t compare it to mac and cheese. It’s its own thing that occupies a completely different niche and scratches its own itch. Once you realize it’s not meant to compare with real mac and cheese the healing can begin.
Take a Kirkland beef hot dog and finely slice it into half moons, cook them in a saucepan until it is crispy, and then deglaze with milk and add the cheese powder, before mixing in the cooked noodles. Optionally slather it with ketchup and/or sriracha.
The only thing I know about this is that if I had a million dollars, I’d be eating more Kraft Dinner.
I don’t know, I tried Kraft dinner again recently after not having had it since I was a kid and it was terrible and not at all what I remembered. The noodles had the wrong consistency, the cheese sauce wasn’t even cheesy, and the whole thing had a weird chemical flavor. The presidents choice white cheddar shells are pretty good, but the best boxed mac and cheese are the Matheson ones by the guy from The Bear.
“Put bacon on it” is a pretty universal hack.
…now I want some bacon.
The veggies and extra dairy were the real hack. Bacon was just because.
Grab a bag of frozen sweet potatoes and peas and you can really kick it up with minimal effort.
I need some brisket so I can make more corned beef.
That’s all the bacon I put on it. There’s about three times that much bacon in it. Sometimes you save a little bit of what you added to sprinkle on top so it makes a better presentation.
Okay that’s fair. Although personally I prefer it all on top because it keeps it crunchy. Crunchy bacon is always better than non-crunchy bacon to me.
My wife agree. She had her portion of bacon in cut and on the side.
But she also didn’t want any of the other extras. She is a boxed mac purist. Though occasionally she wants some curry powder.