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Mac and Cheese Fried Onions and Bacon Toppers

mac and cheeseMac and Cheese Toppers : I love mac and cheese and put something special on top. Yummy My husband got a night with out the kids so I made a special dinner with a treat of individual Mac and Cheese sides.  I love this I made it in about 30 minutes and it was an easy side.  That was portion controlled and yummy

Homemade Mac and Cheese with Onion toppers

Makes 4

  • 1/2 lb of pasta (precooked and drained)
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 8oz  block of Velveeta cheese  or your favorite cheese
  • 3 tablespoon butter
  • 3 tablespoon of flour
  • salt pepper
  • Hormel Apple-wood Bacon Bits
  • Frenches Fried Onions
  • Shredded cheese
  1. Make your rue add the butter and flour to bottom of pot creating an equal amount of both keep moving till it becomes a paste and move till it get dark nutty color.
  2. Add slight warm milk, no ice cold, stir into the rue slowly allowing the sauce to thicken
  3. Add the Velveeta of your favorite cheese still till smooth
  4. Add noodles and mix cheese
  5. Put mac and cheese in ramekins
  6. Top with onions bacon and cheese cook for 15-20 minutes 375.

mac and cheese

This weeks Menu Planning:
Monday : Pizza Biscuit pool night
Tuesday : Fried Rice My husband specialty
Wednesday : Crock pot Meatball Hoagies
Thursday: Bake chicken
Friday: Barbeque Happy 4th

I am linking up to Organizing Junkies Menu Plan Monday

Broccoli Cheese Soup #TasteTuesday

So all weekend I promised my husband my Broccoli cheese soup.  This soup is perfect for a cold night. Which was good  because I forgot to call the oil company and we ran out of heat.  So after sitting in a cold house all day wait for my husband to fix the heat, 99* after the oil truck came.  I rewarded him with  broccoli cheese soup in a bread bowl.  I know with my health living this was not a great choice.  So I had a cup”ish” and  avoid the bread.  I also Immediately pack the extra soup and sent it to a neighbor.  Using my trust weight watcher 1cup scoop I make 2 small plastic containers for my hubby to take to his job.

Broccoli cheese soup

  • Broccoli 2 heads
  • ½ gallon of  milk
  • 2 pints of half and half
  • 1 block of sharp cheddar 1lb
  • 1 onion
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • 1 ½ sticks of butter
  • 1 tsp of cumin
  • 1 tbls of worshire sauce
  • 1 tbls of hot sauce
  • 1 tbls of soy sauce
  • 1 ham steak (optional)
  • 1 chicken breast cooked(optional)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 10 Bread Kaiser Rolls (optional)

 

  1. Melt 1 ½ sticks of butter,
  2. Chop onions, place in pot  with butter cook until soft, add salt/pepper
  3. Add flour over onions making a rue with opinions butter and flour
  4. Add milk, half and half, cumin, worshire, soy, hot sauces,   stir until flour breaks down and blended
  5. Wash broccoli, cut up discarding stems, add to pot with milk
  6. Bring to a almost low boil (watch milk so as not to separate)
  7. Cover turn on low stir in occasionally so the soup does not burn on bottom
  8. Cook until broccoli is tender with fork
  9. Carefully mash broccoli with potato masher, (or use a blender)
  10. Add ham/ chicken heat till they are hot
  11. Add cheese and stir in.
  12. serve in a bread bowl optional

Makes 10-12 servings.. This is a very heavy recipe

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