Top the pasta mixture with the remaining cheese.īake in a preheated oven (at 425 degrees F.)…ĭon’t miss a CCC recipe. …so that the cheese is mixed in with the pasta and sauce. Then add half of the cheese to the pasta and white sauce mixture. In a medium size casserole dish, add the cooked pasta. Remove the pan of white sauce from the heat and set aside for just a moment.
When the butter and flour start to thicken (about 2 minutes),
Heat a medium size pot on medium heat and add butter. About the IngredientsĪ printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post. Interestingly, cavatappi pasta is also known by other names such as cellentani, amori, spirali, or tortiglione. It’s one of my favorite pastas because it’s more on the “hearty” side.Īnd when cooked al-denti (cooked to be firm to the bite), the cavatappi pasta adds great texture to macaroni and cheese. “Cavatappi” actually means corkscrew in Italian. This recipe is made with cavatappi pasta which is tubular and shaped like a corkscrew. So here is one of the homemade versions of the frozen macaroni and cheese that I make now with Cavatappi Pasta… Macaroni and Cheese with Cavatappi Pastaįor the record, this macaroni and cheese with cavatappi pasta is even better than the ultimate best frozen food macaroni and cheese that I had as a kid. Some of the “delicious” frozen food I remember was meatloaf topped with tomato sauce and served with mashed potatoes, and frozen taquitos with avocado sauce.īut the ultimate best frozen food I remember was macaroni and cheese.Īnd since it was baked in the oven (pre-microwave days) the top of the macaroni and cheese had a little crunch to it where the pasta would brown, and it was the best part. When I was growing up my mother made just a handful of homemade recipes, so I had a lot of frozen food for dinner.īut since things are relative, I didn’t really know what I was missing.Īnd I had no idea how much better homemade food was compared to “ frozen TV dinners”.
How Frozen Food or “TV Dinners” are an Inspiration for Recipes Just add cooked ground meat and, or cooked vegetables to it for a quick and easy meal. This simple macaroni and cheese recipe not only tastes heavenly served by itself, but it also makes a great base for a main dish. Macaroni and cheese is one of those side dishes that just looks so darn good it’s impossible to pass up.
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