BETTER BOXED MAC & CHEESE!! TASTES HOMEMADE!!

Hi , everyone .

Welcome back to the kitchen .

Today .

We're doing a little something different today .

I'm gonna show you how we make macaroni and cheese from a box in our house .

And if you do it this way , people will never know that it came out of a box .

It's that delicious .

A couple of simple changes , a couple of ingredients you already have in your fridge and you are going to wow them .

I can't wait to show you how this all comes together .

Today , we are going to do something a little bit different and I really wanna do this because recently I cooked for our annual vacation bible school and because we have ours in the evenings , we uh provided supper for the Children and the workers , the volunteers and I made a menu for the five nights of that week and one of the nights we were making macaroni and cheese and I put uh chopped up broccoli in it to , you know , give it a little more nutritional uh boost .

But we're standing there and they , the adults really love the mac and cheese and some of the kids uh didn't really care that for the fact that I put veggies in it .

But regardless , um , they were asking me , how do you get the mac and cheese this tasty ?

Because when I make Mac , you were asking me , did you make this from scratch ?

I'm like , no , I used that .

I used a box but you have to know how to make the macaroni and cheese out of the box taste like it didn't come out of the box .

And today we're gonna focus on that and I'm gonna help you to make the creamiest macaroni and cheese cheese sauce ever by not following the directions on the box because they are wrong and you will love this method .

So what you wanna do is boil up your noodles .

I have those going over here .

They're all ready to go and then follow the instructions on the box .

My box of macaroni and cheese to a , to a point as far as the measurements for the milk and the butter mine calls for a half a cup of milk and a half a stick or a quarter cup of butter .

And here's the cheese sauce powder .

I just put it in a little dish .

We're also gonna be adding a cup of shredded cheddar cheese and the magic ingredient which will make your cheese sauce delicious and super creamy every single time .

About a quarter of a cup of sour cream while we wait .

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OK .

We're gonna get started making our cheese sauce .

Now on the instructions , it says boil your noodles , drain them , return to the pot , then add the other ingredients wrong .

I promise you if you do that , you're going to end up with a clumpy gross mess .

So melt your butter while your noodles are draining .

OK ?

And then put the sauce pan back on the burner , melt your butter , then add your milk and then add your cheese sauce mix , get a whisk and whisk it until it's smooth and begins to thicken .

Now , this will work with whatever brand of macaroni and cheese you like to buy , whether it's the regular or the thick and creamy , which is the kind I like to buy because it really has a nicer taste .

Also , you can use the organic version of the regular or macaroni and cheese that has the cheese powder .

This will work with any kind of box mac and cheese that comes with a cheese powder .

This is not for the kind that comes with the cheese sauce already in the packet .

Ok .

So there , I'm going to turn my burner down just a little bit and now we're going to add the shredded cheese .

Give this a stir .

Now that cheese powder says it's cheese and it may have been cheese once in another life , but once they put it in the packet and after they dried it out , put it in the packet , it became something that tastes like cheese but isn't really cheese .

Um So what we're gonna do is add some really good cheddar cheese back into the mix and then we're going to add the magic .

The sour cream really does something wonderful to the sauce .

It loosens it up a little , it brings everything together .

It adds a little bit of tang and it really makes this sauce taste homemade .

So just get this in here and now I'm gonna turn off my burner and now we're gonna put our cooked noodles back in .

So now just stir everything up together and tell me that that doesn't look delicious , right ?

This is a really great way of making box mac and cheese and you're gonna love it .

This is a really quick way to make it deliciously .

It's gonna be creamy , it's gonna be cheesy and tangy .

And if you don't like to .

If you don't want to use the shredded cheddar , you can use the sliced American cheese .

Just cut it up into like little squares and put it in there .

I would use maybe a half a dozen slices .

That would be my recommendation .

You don't have to add any cheese at all .

But I do recommend using the sour cream regardless because that's what's really gonna make this pop and become amazing .

And no one is , is super creamy , super , super creamy and no one's gonna believe that it came out of a box mix because it simply doesn't taste that way .

We've been making our macaroni and cheese like this for a number of years and several years ago , I think we did where Molly made this .

Good day .

Welcome to Todd's kitchen in the past , I've made macaroni and cheese .

Now , macaroni and cheese by itself is still very delicious , but I'm gonna spruce up a little bit and make it just that much better for dinner .

So join me today is make my version of macaroni and cheese with beef .

OK .

So to start off with , I have a pan on the stove on a medium to high heat .

So just drizzle on just a little bit of olive oil and I've got one onion that I've just roughly cut up .

We're just going to place it onto the pan .

OK ?

So for the next minute or two , we're just going to cook these onions over a medium to high heat just until they soften up .

OK ?

The onions are softened up so that I'm gonna add in half a kilo of minced meat or ground beef , depending on what country you're from .

OK .

So I'm gonna break it up and I'm going to continue to break that up just until the meat is cooked all the way through .

OK ?

So the meat's all broken up and cooked all the way through .

So I'm gonna turn it down to a medium to low heat .