I made this macaroni and cheese for my family recently, and it has taken me a while to write it up but everyone's macaroni is different, for instance, when we were little, Mum used to make macaroni for Lucy and I and she would roast tomatoes on top.
I found this recipe on Kate Gowing's blog but I didn't have all the ingredients so I've chopped and changed it slightly.
500g of macaroni or any other small pasta
6 rashers of bacon, chopped
5 spring onions, chopped
For the cheese sauce:
60g butter
60g plain flour
2 tsp mustard powder
750ml milk
250g jarlsberg, grated
150g cheddar, grated
First cook your pasta, and that's simple enough, unless you're me and never cook it, thank goodness my godmother was there to check it!
While the pasta is cooking away, cook your bacon and spring onions in a pan together, with no fat, until they're the perfect balance of crispy and meaty.
Then in another pan, start making your cheese sauce, first by melting the butter with the dry ingredients, then adding all the milk until it thickens, and then add about half of both of the grated cheeses.
Drain the pasta and mix the bacon and spring onions in.
Once the pasta and bacony bits are combined, mix in the cheese sauce, sprinkling half of the grated cheese that isn't in the sauce into the pasta.
Get a big dish. And I mean big, we've still got left overs in the fridge, I wasn't kidding when I said it was mega!
Sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top of the dish and bake in 200 celcius/ 400F oven for about half an hour.
When it comes out it should be all bubbly and deliciously crispy on top.
I served this just by itself, it's not one for dieters but seriously this is the ultimate comfort food.
