How to Make Creamy Cheese and Macaroni - Make Mac and Cheese at Home Cooking With Brenda Gantt 2022

good morning everybody in facebook world how are you this morning listen i just thought we would make us some really creamy um macaroni cheese y'all i know your children love it and some of you out there buying the boxed macaroni cheese and if you've tasted the real stuff the real deal you just don't know how good it could be i just got me a small pack of macaroni since it's just me and it is i'm trying to see if it told how many how much this was as far as how much is in it and i don't see it right off hand i'll have to get my glasses on they're small and i got the elbow macaroni so i'm just gonna cut the top off of it and you just turn around right here and look at this i've got me a pot boiling with some water in it and all i'm gonna do is just put my macaroni in it uh with the boiling water it's about half full i imagine there's a quarter water and then you put some salt in it and you stir it around now some people what they do and it's a good idea i don't do it but it's a good idea is they put just a ton of oil in there so that your macaroni doesn't stick together but i never have had a problem with mine sticking together it does pretty good just like this but if you want to put a little bit in there that's fine little tablespoon or so a little oil in it when this gets done we'll continue on with it okay while we're waiting on the macaroni to cook i thought y'all might want to walk outside with me and look at my pretty camellias i've got growing it's a tall tree really tall i should have cut it back but i didn't but uh this the pretty camellia blooms right here aren't they pretty they're just really pretty you can bring them inside and uh decorate with them for christmas and here's another one i've got over here this is a pink see how pretty that is that's a pretty one george and i planted these uh together a long time ago and and we're going to walk out this way i want to show you out this way too those are the woods right there that's just woods where i live but anyway here's another uh color that's real pretty it's kind of got a purpley tip to it a little bit we planted this one it's not as big because we actually rooted it you can root these camellias here's a pretty one under here hiding trunks are already going by and here's here's two little ones right here see how small this is but it's going to bloom it's got a lot of buds on it we rooted that all you do to root a camellia is you um cut you off a stem maybe six or seven inches long let me just pull one and i'll show you how to do it if i can pull it i just pull it off like kind of like that you pull it off and then what you do is you pull off all the leaves off of it except for the top two um the top two leaves like that it'll look kind of like that and so then you get you a butcher knife maybe that one that i use all the time and you push this all the way down in the dirt until you only have about that much sticking up and if you um and you can root it just out in your yard as long as you keep it damp uh i think a good place to have a rooting bed you know how your air condition comes out of your roof or mine does and it has a little pipe and it drips out to off of the roof um the condensation and everything well under that pipe is always wet so what you can do is put this down and other things down in that dirt right there and that could be your little rooting bed and you could root all kind of plants if you wanted to but this my children had a playhouse right out in there i don't know if you can see it or not but uh they got out in the woods and made them a playhouse and you know played like that was their home and um they have the best time outside in the woods and um i do too so let's go back in and check on our macaroni okay y'all i checked the macaroni it's about to boil over oh my word so anyway it's done it's you don't want to get it mushy done but you want it to be uh tender but not to a mush so this is just right and i'm going to just go right over here to my sink and i've got me a colander in the sink and i'm going to pour this out in it and as soon as you pour it out just shake your colander around a little bit to get all the excess water out of it kind of bounce it around you don't want that water in it and put it directly back in your hot pot okay bring your pot back over here to the eye put it back on the eye and put you uh about a half a cup of milk or so in it and we might add more if we need to all right what i've got here is uh one of those small packs of the velveeta cheese and i am going to just pinch off um some of this cheese in there like this just to pinch it off in there we're gonna let this melt in there and y'all it's gonna be so creamy it's gonna be really creamy and your your babies will love this yeah you know i don't know if there's a child around that doesn't like macaroni cheese i did not like it as a child because i didn't like cheese but as i grew older i learned to love cheese and i love it today so anyway about a half a pack of that and then i got a half a pack of uh out here of your cream cheese your cream cheese so i'm gonna put that in there and y'all if you've never put cream cheese in macaroni cheese you're going to find that it is so good in there and have it kind of low and just pinch that around okay let me wipe my hands off real quickly over here at the sink okay now then um what i want to do is have it kind of low i've got it on five right now and i am going to melt this cheese in there and i'm going to put a little butter you know just uh maybe a tablespoon or two just to give it a good flavor that looks like about maybe three tablespoons and that cheese is going to melt in there and make it real thick and pretty and creamy and there's just nothing to it but it will you that that cream cheese in it you're gonna like that you are now my mother she made her her macaroni cheese and i do this sometimes too she would cook her macaroni and then she would put it in a um casserole dish and she cut up big strips of your solid block of cheddar trees and put it all in there then she would get a cup of milk and beat up oh and she also put butter all in here too but anyway uh so she had her cheese and her butter in there and she layered it up then she would get a cup of milk and she would beat up one egg in there and then and then she would put that in a casserole dish put it in the oven and when she did um that it was the cheese would melt and the egg would get kind of like a solid consistency in that macaroni when you dipped it out it wasn't runny it was it was thicker see how that's melting up in there and y'all it's gonna be it is good now i'm telling you if you have to add a little more milk if it looks too thick we'll add it and also i want to tell you this when you've got leftover macaroni and you know this to be true it's like it firms up into a block you know it's real hard and everything when you uh try to eat some leftover macaroni so what i do is i put me a little serving in a bowl and then i add just a tad of milk or a tad of water just to kind of stir it around and then i put the microwave for a little bit until it all melts up good all right it's almost melted anyway what i was talking to you about the comedians while ago when george was a little boy he rooted and that's my husband george he's passed away two years ago but anyway when he was a little boy he he rooted camellias and he ordered him for his mama and they lived across the woods over there or did live there before they died and um hit the camellias that he rude as a little boy are big and beautiful and what he did is he did it the exact same way as i showed y'all a while ago except he took a fruit jar and put it over that committee and kind of did like that so it kind of went down in the dirt just a little bit and what happened was that that it condensated in there the condensation happened and so it kept that plant wet and um you know he left it on there in a while i don't know how long he left it don't know i'm sure several months or whatever all right y'all this is ready let me get something i'll show it to you can you see that that is melted all in there and you talk about good it's really good now you can put more cheese in there if you want to put less but i do recommend that you put the velveeta and then uh cream cheese the cream cheese is going to make it extra good and my children love it like this and i know that your children would love it like this too and so was your husband he'd like some good macaroni and um so anyway that's how we're gonna leave it but if you'll tune into um my instagram page i'm gonna show you how you can make it a little bit fancier in case you're having guests over the children and just as soon as this pot is any other way but if you'll turn over there we're going to do some extra things to this macaroni and you'll like that too and i'll talk to y'all later have a blessed day and uh i hope to see you tomorrow same station right here on cooking with bread again love y'all have a great day reaching some cabela's oh and by the way um you can root um rosemary the same way just get you a piece about that long eight or nine inches strip all those leaves on the bottom off all the little things and just take your knife and do that in the dirt and plant it where you want it to grow because if you plant it where you want it to grow then you don't have to transplant it you can just do it just like that talk to y'all later bye

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Length: 12min 7sec (727 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2022