Memory Lane: Mac and Cheese-- a Love Story

I have too many stories to tell about Mac and Cheese.

Of course I grew up hoping that every day we would have Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for lunch, and while not every day we did, we did pretty often, and it was pretty great. The best kind was the noodles that were shaped like dinosaurs or Minnie Mouse or something because those noodles held way more sauce! I definitely continued eating this rank Kraft product through my teenage years because no child-of-the-90s with a taste for this box could ever stop.

When I was learning to cook through watching Food Network, I tried out lots of recipes for "adult" mac and cheese. I think I made Barefoot Contessa's mac a few times, but then just made up my own thing and went to town with all the different ingredients I was learning to cook with. My friend Jessica and I made Mac and Cheese every Friday night for weeks in a row in college, and I would bring some leftovers to work to share with my boss and coworkers. No wonder they all loved me at my first job!!

When I first went vegan, I made SO MANY different vegan Mac and Cheese recipes trying to find the perfect one. Pumpkin mac, carrot mac, potato mac, mac with nooch, tofu mac... I combined recipes, I swapped this for that, I added extra of this and less of that, I covered all the bases to find THE PERFECT Mac recipe-- The Chipotle Mac from the PPK [RIP].

So easy, so spicy and creamy; the most perfect sauce, the right amount of grown-up and still reminiscent of the box, yet with dignity. I make this all the time, because it calls for only a few ingredients, mostly all pantry staples, and you put them in a blender and you are like, done. This recipe, though I have already linked you there, is now published in Super Fun Times Vegan Holiday Coobook, which I am super psyched to cook everything from again for Thanksliving!!

Basically, what I want to say is, Mac is everything. Without Mac, I am nothing.

The End <3

-KZ

kzcakes

Hi, I'm KZ. I live, cook, and chow down on vegan food in NYC.

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AnonymousOctober 3, 2017 at 1:57 AM
That recipe from Super Fun Times is my go-to mac n cheese recipe now - I didn't realise it had been around for a while. It's the easiest and most flavoursome one I've found!
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vegan.in.brightonOctober 4, 2017 at 1:00 AM
I love mac and cheese more than any other food. It's the best! I can't wait to get the holiday cookbook when I stop travelling, it looks so great!
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JenniferOctober 4, 2017 at 8:23 PM
This post makes me think about the pizza flavor of one of those vegan boxed mac and cheese that popped up recently. So Delicious? I can't remember. I need to buy and make it again!
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JOctober 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM
Mac & cheese is the best! I think I'll have to give the non-spicy version of that recipe a try sometime!
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