Homemade Mac and Cheese

Homemade Mac and Cheese
Gluten Free Everyday by Robert Landolphi

Outta 10: (Note: On the suggestion of Andria's friend Catherine Del Duca, who is tired of seeing yay after yay, we have decided to change this part of the blog to a scale out of 10) This Mac and Cheese dish is pretty good, and for gluten-free it is pretty amasing. However, its still just plain old mac and cheese in the end no matter how good. Also, on the healthiness scale this is a big faux-pas! Sooo much cream......So we are gonna give this recipe a 7.5/10.

Subsitutions and Comments: This is a really delish recipe and its entirely Gluten-free. However, if you aren't into the gluten-freeness you can made this normal styles with regular pasta and regular breadcrumbs. The only subsitution we made was putting chili powder instead of cayenne pepper, cause we didn't have any. We used shell pasta, and for the bread crumbs we buy Molly B's gluten free olive oil bread and then just cut up the whole loaf and toast it and crumble it up. For this recipe we like smaller chunks of bread though rather than really fine crumbs. We used old yellow cheddar and opted for the green onions.

Recipe:

1 pound brown rice elbow or shell pasta
2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup gluten-free dried bread crumbs
1 tbsp olive oil
2 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 tsp dijon mustard
3/4 tsp kosher salt
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
3 cups shredded sharp yellow or white cheddar cheese
1/4 cup sliced green onions (optional)



1. Preheat over to 375 and butter a 9 by 13 inch baking dish. In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook the pasta until al dente according to package instructions. Drain and return to pot.

2. Stir together parmesan, bread crumbs and oil in a bowl.

Topping mix

3. In a medium saucepan whisk cream, mustard, salt and cayenne pepper.  Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Decrease heat and whisk in cheddar cheese until smooth.

Cheese sauce

4Pour sauce over the pasta, stir in the green onions, and pour into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with the topping and bake until the edges are bubble and the top is golden brown, 20-25 mins.

Ready to bake in the oven

Yum!