Macaroni & Cheese...

[tvguy]

While I have read od headcheese I have never ever heard of anyone actually eating it

The grocery store carries it, right next to the bologna, so someone is eating it.

 

[Robbi]

Bechamel is the name of the sauce. It is not the flour/oil mixture. That is roux. This is what wikipedia says:

"Béchamel sauce (/bɛʃəˈmɛl/ or /beɪʃəˈmɛl/;[1] French: [be.ʃa'mɛl]), also known as white sauce, is made with a roux of butter and flour cooked in milk. It is one of the mother sauces of French cuisine[2] and is used in many recipes of Italian cuisine, for example lasagne. It is used as the base for other sauces (such as Mornay sauce, which is Béchamel with cheese)."

My grandmother is from St. Malo, France. It drives her crazy when people on the cooking shows say roux for starting a Bechamel sauce. You go with wikipedia, I'll stick with my French grandmother.

 

[cornflake]

My grandmother is from St. Malo, France. It drives her crazy when people on the cooking shows say roux for starting a Bechamel sauce. You go with wikipedia, I'll stick with my French grandmother.

You're welcome to obviously, but this is classic, traditional, French cooking that dates back hundreds of years - so I'm guessing it predates your grandmere.

A roux is butter (or oil) and flour, cooked.

A bechamel is the sauce made when milk is added to a roux. It's, as Wiki says, one of the mother sauces.

 

[mdsoccermom]

My grandmother is from St. Malo, France. It drives her crazy when people on the cooking shows say roux for starting a Bechamel sauce. You go with wikipedia, I'll stick with my French grandmother.

Every single glossary of French cooking terms contradicts your grandmother, as do epicurious, Williams-Sonoma and this article from the NY Times


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/health/nutrition/28recipehealth.html?_r=0

 

[java]

My grandmother is from St. Malo, France. It drives her crazy when people on the cooking shows say roux for starting a Bechamel sauce. You go with wikipedia, I'll stick with my French grandmother.

Jacques Pepin is my go to Cooking show guy. He's French. He says roux for flour and butter. Béchamel when you add in the milk. I'll go with him.

 

[Janepod]

What is on your holiday menus?

Beef Wellington (changed to Beef Tenderloin if celiac brother comes)
Horseradish & creme fraiche to garnish
Mashed potatoes
Roasted vegetables - turnips, brussels sprouts, carrots, etc.
Stewed mushrooms
Asparagus w/hollandaise sauce
Rolls
Shrimp risotto if brother brings it
CANberry for my kid
Green salad if I feel like making it; I'm the only one who eats it.

 

[Granny square]

What do you put in your stewed mushrooms?

 

[kimmar067]

...no, I've never served it, but I wouldn't necessarily be against it though....of course, the elbow macaroni has to be GF...

 

[Gumbo4x4]

While I have read od headcheese I have never ever heard of anyone actually eating it

I know a few people who like it. I've tried it several times, but it's just not my thing. Did find myself REAL tempted by the rawhack at the butcher's yesterday, but I knew nobody else in the house would eat it

 

[Janepod]

What do you put in your stewed mushrooms?

Usually butter and red wine, but sometimes we add cream, or substitute port for the red wine.

 

[luvdamouse91]

I know. LOL That stuff is nasty. Canned beans, canned soup, and canned fake onions. Toss in dish and bake. LOL Yuck

 

[Sorsha]

What do you put in your stewed mushrooms?

Not the PP, but we usually use this recipe.

Last time, we left out the Burgundy (anti-alcohol people in DH's family, who were coming to dinner) and subbed with beef broth. Not as tasty, but still worked just fine.

 

[Planogirl]

I'm surprised to see anyone say Mac & Cheese isn't fancy enough. It can be quite 'fancy".

I don't consider green bean casserole or mashed potatoes or cranberry sauce particularly fancy either. I like most of these (not the green beans!) but then I don't need fancy foods.

 

[klacey1]

We never had mac and cheese growing up as a dish at a holiday or other times. DBF's grandmother will make it on Easter and some other holidays-- they're Italian and ALWAYS have some sort of pasta on the holiday dinner table!

This thread did inspire me to make a big mac and cheese for lunch! We're snowed in and I was just craving it! I made it with four cheeses, truffle oil, garlic and butter/milk/flour. Topped it with an extra layer of cheese, bread crumbs, and baked it for 15 minutes. Not healthy at all but sooo yummy!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

This thread did inspire me to make a big mac and cheese for lunch! We're snowed in and I was just craving it! I made it with four cheeses, truffle oil, garlic and butter/milk/flour. Topped it with an extra layer of cheese, bread crumbs, and baked it for 15 minutes. Not healthy at all but sooo yummy!

I'll be right over

 

[novajeanjellybean]

Once again, Mac n Cheese was part of our holiday meal today lol

 

[CollieMom]

I love it for Thanksgiving dinner

 

[amg35]

Well...for us technically, you can say so I guess? We have rigatoni al forno (baked mostaccioli) with our holiday dinners. It's macaroni - derived from the word maccheroni in Italian, which refers to any shape of pasta, not just elbow shaped used in orange mac and cheese (that was annoying of me, wasn't it? ) - and ricotta and mozarella cheese, and red sauce, baked in the oven.

So yes, we have mac and cheese for holidays!

 

[beaucoup]

Went to a country inn for Thanksgiving. Mac & cheese was on the buffet. Probably there so the kids would have something to eat.

Not something we make at home even as a normal meal, so no we never make it for a holiday meal either. Wasn't a meal I grew up having either. Not until Kraft came out with that boxed stuff.

Honestly, I am just not a huge pasta eater.