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  • Copycat Kraft Deluxe Original Mac & Cheese Dinner

    From Ruth Haffly@1:396/45.28 to Ben Collver on Tue Aug 5 15:41:15 2025
    Hi Ben,

    I do mac & cheese with a twist. First, cook the macaroni (whole wheat
    ...
    high power, serve and enjoy. The whole wheat pasta and mustard make it slightly different from the average mac & cheese, but a difference that elevates it above the run of the mill version.

    Thanks for the tips! I will keep an eye out for whole wheat pasta and give it a try some day.

    It's hands down, much better than the wimpy stuff I was raised on. Mom
    used white pasta and sharp cheddar, but not as much cheese as I use. I
    made my version (but with her white pasta) one time when we were
    visiting. I think she enjoyed the kick that the mustard and extra cheese
    gave it.


    Recently i began watching Star Trek, Strange New Worlds. One of the
    main cast, Captain Pike, likes to cook. In one episode, i watched him take
    leftover spaghetti noodles, put them in a frying pan with some olive
    oil and two eggs, fried it, added parmesan, and called it good. Made
    it look trivial.

    That does have some possibilities. Add a good marinara sauce to the
    noodles and make sure you have sufficient cheese; it needs more than
    just a light dusting.

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    Ruth
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  • From Ben Collver@1:105/500 to Ruth Haffly on Wed Aug 6 07:48:11 2025
    Re: Copycat Kraft Deluxe Original Mac & Cheese Dinner
    By: Ruth Haffly to Ben Collver on Tue Aug 05 2025 03:41 pm

    Hi Ruth,

    That does have some possibilities. Add a good marinara sauce to the
    noodles and make sure you have sufficient cheese; it needs more than just
    a light dusting.

    Yesterday i made spaghetti using a store brand "Spaghetti Spice Mix" packet. The ingredients list included half a dozen different dairy ingredients.
    Butter that, Cheese this, Milk, caseinate, etc. Suffice it to say last
    night's spaghetti was "bomb" and i am looking forward to the leftovers.
    Hooray for cheese drugs.
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  • From Ruth Haffly@1:396/45.28 to Ben Collver on Thu Aug 7 12:26:40 2025
    Hi Ben,


    That does have some possibilities. Add a good marinara sauce to the
    noodles and make sure you have sufficient cheese; it needs more than just
    a light dusting.

    Yesterday i made spaghetti using a store brand "Spaghetti Spice Mix" packet. The ingredients list included half a dozen different dairy ingredients. Butter that, Cheese this, Milk, caseinate, etc. Suffice
    it to say last night's spaghetti was "bomb" and i am looking forward
    to the leftovers. Hooray for cheese drugs.

    I'd be shot at sunset (or sunrise if it were closer) if I used anything
    like that. (G) Steve is half Italian--on his mom's side. She gave me a
    copy of her recipies when we got married; I've tweaked them some but
    stayed fairly close to the original. One thing we have done over the
    last 25 (+/-) years is to give up the "green can" and "red can" cheeses
    in favor of buying a hunk and grating our own. We were at Wegman's the
    other day--usually they sell their parmisan and romano pieces in weights
    of half a pound or less. We found a couple of chunks of parm that were
    over a pound and bought one. Once it's grated, it keeps fresh in our
    freezer until needed.

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    Catch you later,
    Ruth
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