Baked Lil Smokies N Homemade Mac N Cheese Recipes

SHANNON'S SMOKY MACARONI AND CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Fill a pot with lightly-salted water and bring to a boil. Stir the macaroni into the water and return to a boil. Cook and occasionally stir until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 8 minutes; drain.
• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the flour to the melted butter and whisk continually for 1 to 2 minutes to make a roux. Whisk 2 cups of the milk into the roux until smooth and then add the remaining milk. Raise the heat to medium-high and continue cooking and stirring until thickened, but not boiling. Stir the Gouda, Cheddar, Swiss, and 1 cup Parmesan cheese into the mixture; once the cheeses have melted completely, fold the drained macaroni into the mixture to coat. Pour the macaroni mixture into a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Stir 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and cayenne pepper together in a small bowl; sprinkle over the macaroni. Drizzle the olive oil over the bread crumbs.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden and bubbly, about 30 minutes. Allow to rest 10 minutes before cutting.

BAKED LIL' SMOKIES N HOMEMADE MAC-N-CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cook Macaroni noodles according to package directions. Drain and rinse.
• Saute lil' smokies in pan until warm.
• Grate cheese while the above is cooking.
• Grease a baking dish (the deeper the dish the more layers you can make).
• Layers: Noodles (enough to just cover bottom of dish). Smokies (divide the by the # of layers to get them equally distributed). Cheese (cover noodles and smokies to your taste: Just make sure to reserve enough for the other layers).
• Butter (dot this on).
• Then begin over with the layers until all is used up (finishing with the butter).
• Finally pour the milk over top (Important: the milk is an estimate; I never measure, just pour until it feels right but this should be about right. Just adjust according to your taste on subsequent makings).
• Cover and bake 30 minutes.
• Remove cover and bake another 15-20 minutes.

SMOKY MAC 'N CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375-degrees F.
• Cook macaroni according to package directions, drain.
• Spray a 13 x 9 baking pan with Pam (cooking spray) or grease pan and set aside.
• In a large saucepan heat cream and evaporated milk (see note 1 in description), mustard, salt and pepper to boiling.
• Reduce heat and stir in cheese (see note 2 in description)with a whisk or a wooden spoon until melted and smooth.
• REMOVE FROM HEAT.
• Stir in tomatoes, onions and hotdogs or little smokies(if using).
• Put macaroni in baking pan and pour sauce over, mixing in the cheese sauce well so all the macaroni is well covered (this can be done in a separate saucepan or bowl but by mixing in the pan there is one less dish to wash).
• In a small bowl mix together bread crumbs and Parmesan (or if you are making your own bread crumbs in a blender you can add the Parmesan and just whirl the bread crumbs and Parmesan in the blender -- one less dish to wash).
• Sprinkle breadcrumb/Parmesan mixture over the macaroni/cheese in the baking dish.
• Bake for 20-30 minutes or until bubbly and golden brown.

SMOKY MAC 'N CHEESE

Steps:

• Prepare Dinner in large saucepan as directed on package, adding sausage links to the boiling water for the last 5 min. of the Macaroni cooking time.