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Velveeta

I made macaroni and cheese for dinner, again.  This time I took my Aunt's advice and tried Velveeta.



Did anyone else eat this as a child?  I have lots of childhood memories around Velveeta.  That is until my mom decided that any cheese that didn't need to be refrigerated was probably really unhealthy.  Up until then it was used in grilled cheese and macaroni and cheese.  Mom let us keep the cool cardboard boxes it came in.  There were used for storing small stuff and other craft project.


Tonight I tried the easy recipe on the Velveeta box.  Once I opened up the cheese I thought what am I doing this can't be healthy.


It's cheese Product!

Once the noodles were cooked and rinsed I added the "cheese."  It did melt quite nicely and didn't have any grease floating at the top.  However, it also didn't have any flavor.  I added more pepper but it still wasn't right.


Did I mention it looked like glue?

So I put half in the oven to see if baking would help.  It kinda helped that plus some garlic powder for flavor.  It looked better.


But still tasted kinda plasticy.  But here I am blogging about it while eating it.  So another recipe down.  I'll keep looking until I can almost replicate my grandma's mad and cheese.  Next week I'll try a different brand of cheese.  Any suggestions?

Comments

  1. MarleeMarch 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM

    Stop while you're ahead! Too funny! Laughed my way through this. Beautifully illustrated I must say!

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  2. Annemarie HuberMarch 8, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    So that's where those boxes came from! Had no clue!

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  3. LeeAnnMarch 12, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    Suzanne, the way Mom had me make cheese and macaroni was to pour milk, cheese cubes (half inch?), and cooked macaroni in a casserole dish and bake it in the oven with a lid. No melting the cheese before putting it the casserole dish. Sorry, I don't remember time & temperature or amount of each ingredient. I might have stirred it at some point while it was in the oven. Also Mom never, never cooked with pepper.

    Aunt LeeAnn

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