![]() ![]() Yes, the pasta in the cold water and milk mixture, with a little floating butter nugget.Ģ. Add 1 tablespoon of butter and the dry pasta. Put 1½ cups of water and ½ cup of milk in a saucepan (this is twice the milk listed on the box but stay with me). Even better? I upped the creaminess while reducing the fat, and I did not add any additional ingredients to those listed on the box.ġ. RELATED: What's Actually in Kraft Mac & Cheese? The ultimate boxed mac and cheese hackīecause for some weird reason, in an era when all I have is time on my hands, I really wanted to make my mac and cheese even faster and easier, and in doing do, accidentally made it better! Not wanting to wait for the pasta water to boil, or to add the step of draining, I gave my mac a one-pot makeover and I will definitively never make it any other way. It has also led me to the single greatest mac hack I have ever discovered (and if someone else invented it first, don’t me). But it has made me happy, soothed jangled nerves, and fed my soul as much as my stomach and for that I am grateful. ![]() As someone who tends to only eat it once or twice a year, four boxes in four months is a lot. So, it is no wonder that during my initial pandemic pantry stock-up, I bought a five-pack of Kraft Mac & Cheese, and am down to just one box left. In a time of uncertainty and when your baseline mental state is a hum of buzzing anxiety, food that evokes a time when you trusted the grownups to make smart decisions to keep you safe is a very good thing. Like many during these unprecedented times, I have been craving comfort foods-especially those that evoke memories from my childhood. RELATED: We Tried 5 Brands of Instant Mac and Cheese and This Was the Best What’s so wonderful about boxed mac and cheese? I don’t usually buy the Stouffer’s unless I am having that particular craving, but I always have one or two boxes of emergency Kraft in the pantry. He still doesn’t much like mac and cheese, but he loves MY mac and cheese.īut let’s be clear, I am also unapologetic in my adoration of both the frozen Stouffer’s mac, and my passion for the original blue box of Kraft. I make a homemade mac and cheese so decadent and delicious that it made a convert of my traditionally mac-eschewing husband. ![]()
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