Quarantine Cooking - The Lady's Cheesy Mac _ Southern Macaroni & Cheese Recipe

Hey y'all .

Welcome to my youtube channel .

I'm back in the kitchen to share with y'all some easy , easy recipes but yet delicious recipes .

So , you know , one of the most um talked about foods that we serve at the lady and sons and uh Paula Dean's family kitchen restaurants is our macaroni and cheese .

And hi young kids that come in .

Um They lap up that macaroni and cheese .

I think , I think babies are born with a , a pasta gene .

So I'm gonna share with y'all the recipe that we use at the restaurant .

And uh I'll warn you , this is , this makes a lot .

Uh If I were preparing it for my family , I would probably cut it in two , but it calls for four cups of cooked macaroni .

So you would start with two cups raw .

So this is four cups and I'm gonna add our butter because our macaroni is warm and um it will help melt that butter .

So this is real , real , real important when you're making macaroni and cheese , you know , they have taught us to cook pasta .

Well , personally , I'm not a fan of El Dente pasta , but when you're making this macaroni and cheese .

If you cook these elbow macaroni to El Den , the liquid in your dish is gonna soak up very , very fast because those noodles are gonna try to complete their cooking process .

So they'll go drink up any liquid you would have and you're gonna have a , a pan of dry macaroni and cheese .

All right .

So I put my butter in there and let it melt .

Um So I'm gonna be adding eggs in , in southern macaroni and cheese .

You know , we add eggs because we want it to bake up kind of like a custard , you know .

And uh to me , this is uh a secret to making good macaroni and cheese .

And that's evaporated milk .

I've got regular milk out here , but I'm gonna use my evaporated milk and I say that's probably a cup which I'll probably have to finish off with um some regular milk cheeses , you know , I say do whatever cheeses makes you happy whether it's Velveeta or cheddar or white American .

Uh I have fallen in love with Munster cheese .

So I am gonna just take my monster .

That sounds funny .

Take my monster like my monster .

All right .

So I'm gonna take this and I'm just gonna cut this in um small pieces and then that will have an opportunity to just melt all through this macaroni and cheese .

So I like putting some in big chunks and the other cheese I've got is um just let let me check and make sure I don't want to tell you a story .

It's just sharp chatter .

So I'm gonna put that in there .

I may save a little bit maybe for the topping because you don't want to top your macaroni and cheese with your , with the topping .

Uh , when you put it in the oven because it cheese will get hard and overcooked .

So we're not gonna do that right now .

I'm gonna add three before I do that .

I'm gonna see if this needs more salt , which it your , so I'm gonna add a little salt but you have to be careful with your salt because um , to me , cheese is salty .

So that's three beaten eggs .

Theresa did such a good job getting everything prepped for me .

All right .

So I'm fixing to add , I'm gonna add the rest of that cheese cause I sure do like cheese and macaroni and cheese .

The secret to me to our Fabulous macaroni and cheese is this ingredient right here and that's sour cream .

Sour cream will fix almost anything y'all .

It's right up there with butter and mayonnaise and cheese .

All right .

So this is looking good .

It's looking so good .

You know what some cream cheese would be good added to this too .

To me .

You just can't get enough cheeses .

All right .

So now I'm gonna come back because that didn't yield me quite enough milk .

So I'm just gonna finish this off with a whole whole milk and you can do all this ahead of time and stick this in your refrigerator .

Hush .

Hush , hush .

Oh my gosh .

One of my y'all , one of my grand babies is here .

They're gonna come in and go swimming .

I won't be able to be with them , but they're gonna go into the pool .

So those dogs are going crazy because they see a child out there .

So please excuse the , the ruckus .

All right .

So this looks good and creamy .

Y'all good and creamy .

So I'm gonna spray my dish .

I'm gonna put this in the oven at 3 50 about halfway through .

I'm gonna take it and I'm gonna stir it and um , I'll be adding extra cheese on top at the last few minutes of cooking .

So when this is done , I'll be back and we'll finish it up .

You could love this recipe y'all .

Yeah .

Ok .

About five more minutes .

All right , y'all .

I have baked this macaroni and cheese for 40 minutes .

I stirred it up at 20 minutes , put it back in for another 20 minutes and then I added the cheese about three or four minutes ago .

So it doesn't take that long for that cheese to melt .

Look at that cheese .

Look at that macaroni cheese .

Oh , so this will kind of show you , that's why I know doesn't it smell good ?

And this is one of the reasons why this is one of the favorite dishes at the restaurant .

The lady and sons in Paula .

Dean's family kitchen .

Look at that y'all .

And I see pieces of that monster cheese .

Oh , it smells so good .

It's been a long time since I've had the lady and sons macaroni and cheese .

So remember the special tips about it ?

Cook your macaroni and cheese .

Two or your noodles .

Two or three minutes longer than the box says .

Uh , drain them well , stir them in a colander .

Make sure all the water is out of those little elbow noodles .

Uh What else ?

Condensed milk ?

Yes .

The , the evaporated milk makes it incredible .

Not condensed because that's sweet .

Mm .

Mm .

Would you like a little bit fat boy ?

You know , I do .

Do you think I was just looking at you ?

You're my fat boy , Michael .

He said I don't want to burn you .

Now give it to me then .

Ok .

I'm telling you your family's gonna love you for it in that delicious .

I'm so glad .

Don't burn me then .

How you doing my tricks ?

That's my trick .