BlamCo Mac and Cheese - Classic vs Irradiated

Mac and cheese is a simple classic comfort food that is always pleasing to eat no matter the situation .

Heck even in a nuclear apocalypse , people still find themselves chowing down on these cheesy classics .

I'm gonna make the blam mac and cheese from the Fallout games in two ways .

The prewar classic Blanco Mac and Cheese with the help of the Fallout cookbook and also the Postwar irradiated version by giving it a few twists .

If you don't know .

The blam mac and cheese is a consumable food item in the Fallout games .

It made its day debut in Fallout three where you can find it lying around in the wasteland in its bright lemon lime green box in Fallout four , its packaging got rebranded into a blue box showing a bowl of mac and cheese with a bomb inside of it .

In the game , you can actually make the blame mac and cheese .

As long as you have a food processor and the necessary ingredients first , you need razor grain , which is a tough sharp grass that waste Landers use as a replacement for wheat , which has become extinct .

According to the cookbook , razor Grain can be mashed up and reshaped to lumpy curved pieces of dough that work well enough as pasta .

The Endgame recipe also asks for purified water , which I assume is for boiling the razor grain macaroni and also carrots and plastic , which I assume is a weird wasteland or way of making cheese sauce .

Yikes lucky for us .

Blam was gracious enough to partner up with this cookbook and generously provided the recipe so we can actually make their authentic pre-war version of mac and cheese .

No razor grain pasta or carrots needed .

We start off by boiling two chopped up medium carrots .

I don't think I've ever had mac and cheese with carrots as a part of the sauce before .

But I appreciate the attention to detail here by the cookbook and carrots are part of the actual in game recipe .

We'll let those carrots simmered in medium heat for five minutes .

Then we drain the carrots and transfer them to a blender where we'll add 1.5 cups of whole milk , half a cup of heavy cream and two teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce .

Blend all of those together until smooth in a separate bowl , mixed together a quarter cup of all purpose flour , two teaspoons of ground mustard , two teaspoons of garlic powder and a quarter teaspoon of cayenne pepper then melt five tablespoons of unsalted butter in a sauce pan over medium high heat .

Once the butter's melted , add the flour mixture while consistently whisking when the butter and flour combine into a root whisk in the carrot and milk mixture until everything is completely mixed .

Well , then we add eight ounces of shredded sharp cheddar cheese and four ounces of shredded fontina cheese .

Make sure to add the cheese in small batches , salt and pepper to taste and then add in about a pound of cooked elbow macaroni and stir it in that cheese sauce until it's fully coated .

And that's the classic blam mac and cheese .

Now , we have the pre-war cleaned nonirradiated variant .

But in the recent fallout games , there's also the Postwar dirty irradiated variant of Blanco mac and cheese .

So let's try to make that .

I mean , to be honest , I could just add some green food coloring .

But where's the fun in that ?

Let's try something a bit more ambitious this time though , I'm not gonna be using carrots .

We'll be using around four cups of fresh spinach and half a cup of fresh parsley .

I usually use flat leaf parsley , but the store only carried the curly ones this time .

Now , I know this is not very lore friendly because let's face it .

You're not gonna be able to source spinach and parsley in a nuclear wasteland , but that can be our secret .

Just pretend it's green fungus or something .

Add half a cup of whole milk and half a cup of heavy cream and combine it all until it's evenly mixed .

Then similar to the previous one , we're gonna mix together a quarter cup of all purpose flour , two teaspoons of ground mustard , two teaspoons of garlic powder .

But this time I'm not gonna put the cayenne pepper since I don't want the heat to overpower .

The other flavors melt five tablespoons of unsalted butter in a sauce pan over medium high heat .

Once the butter is melted , add the flour mixture while constantly whisking when the butter and flour combine into a roux whisk in the spinach and milk mixture until everything is completely mixed .

Well , now to add the cheeses this time , I'm using eight ounces of smoked cheddar instead because this box looks like it's been blown to smithereens .

So I can see it having a smoky flavor and instead of fontina , I'm using four ounces of go for a slightly more pronounced taste .

Also , I imagine this dirty version to taste somewhat funky .

So I'm gonna add a bit of funk with two ounces of blue cheese , mix everything well and add salt and pepper to taste then mix in about a pound of cooked macaroni .

We're also gonna add juice from half a lime to give it that nuclear acidity top it with even more blue cheese funk .

And we have a totally rad Postwar Blam mac and cheese .

All right , let's give them a taste first .

With the classic Mac taste wise .

It's a pretty solid mac and cheese .

It's got a very nice neutral inoffensive taste , which to me is great because it can easily go well with other stuff such as bacon ribs , broccoli or whatever you like to eat mac and cheese .

With the cayenne also gives it a bit of a kick , which is nice .

I do observe though that the texture is a bit grainy .

I think it's because I cooked the root on medium high .

I think it overcooked the mixture and the cheeses and caused it to be not as saucy .

Everyone's stove tops are different .

I think if I use medium heat rather than the medium high , the cookbooks are just it , then it might have been more creamy but still the flavor was pretty good .

Now for the irradiated version first , let me whip out my dosimeter to see how radiated this is ok .

It clocks at 3.6 Rontin .

Not great , not terrible .

Let's dig in .

I love the bright green color of the dish , the color from the spinach and the blue cheese topping truly gives it a nuclear look , which is really cool .

Taste wise .

It's way different from the classic style even though this is the dirty version .

Ironic , it tastes a lot fresher because of the spinach and parsley .

The smokiness from the smoked cheddar really comes through and the lime juice gives it a good zing .

The blue cheese isn't too overpowering .

In fact , I could probably add more the flavors .

Surprisingly , all go really well together .

And if you want a mac and cheese with a more powerful taste .

Then I think you'd like this one .

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