Quick Baked Macaroni and Cheese

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Quick Baked Macaroni and Cheese
by Ted Gross

Description: Fast, easy macaroni and cheese recipe your family will love.

Some food combinations always seem to spurn a million different recipes. Macaroni & Cheese is certainly one of them.

So once again I am going to return to this recipe, quick and easy, no messing around, no fudging around, and something that can feed a few people in about 90 minutes. And also certainly something that will last in your fridge for a few days.

Ingredients:

One box or bag of pasta noodles, in any shape you like them (can be spinach pasta as well).
2 1/2-3 cups of grated cheese - any type you like (or you can mix some different ones).
1 Tablespoon of olive oil or butter

Utensils You Need:

Pot to boil the noodles
Colander - (a metal or plastic container with a perforated bottom, for draining and straining foods).
Oven-ready dish to bake the Macaroni and Cheese

Directions:

1. Boil the macaroni in water until soft. (Usually 20 minutes). Remember to put enough water in there so it covers the macaroni and does not boil out.

2. Take the pot with the macaroni, and pour it into the colander.

3. Put either one Tablespoon of olive oil or melted butter on bottom of the oven ready dish. Cover it entirely. (This ensures it does not burn and will create a crunchy crust on the bottom.)

4. Dump the macaroni in the oven ready dish.

5. Take 1/2-1 cup of cheese and mix it in the macaroni.

6. Place all the remaining cheese on top so that it totally covers the top of the macaroni in a neat layer.

7. Cover the dish with aluminum foil.

8. Turn your oven on to approximately 350º Fahrenheit.

9. Turn timer on for 45 minutes. Check the macaroni. If you want a more crusty layer, put it back in for another 15 minutes - with aluminum foil still on.

10. More crusty? Take aluminum foil off and put in for 5 minute intervals. Keep your eye on it so top does not burn.

It simply does not get much simpler than this. You can get fairly creative with additions of veggies and spices. But if you want to spend maybe 10 minutes in the kitchen, and while the pasta (macaroni) boils just do something else, and forget the whole big kitchen planning so you can do something else, this is the recipe for you.

Ted Gross's award winning cooking blog, (voted best Food Weblog 2007 & a Google Blog of Note), Help! I Have A Fire In My Kitchen contains recipes and humor including recipe submissions from all around the world. The recipe above, belongs to and was originally published (with images and possibly additional content) at Help! I Have A Fire In My Kitchen - a humorous look into the adventures of a single parent who learned the hard way and with a great deal of trepidation how to cook, feed his children, friends and the rare date with a measure of dignity and (hopefully) good food - Recipes Included! And it is all KOSHER to boot!

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