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My Mom’s Famous Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

August 12, 2014 16 Comments

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Mom's Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

Today I'm re-posting this baked macaroni and cheese recipe in honor of my Mom, who passed away recently.  When cleaning out her house we came across the hand-written version that she sent me when I originally posted it:

Baked Macaroni and Cheese

My Mom is asked to make this baked macaroni and cheese recipe everywhere she goes, she's a great cook, unlike myself – I have to really work at it!  She originally got the recipe from my Grandma (her mother-in-law), and adults and kids both love it. I made this for a meatless Friday during Lent and it turned out GREAT.  I ended up making a huge pan and froze one for later — it reheats well.

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Mona Lou's Famous Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

Author Mona Lou via Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Ingredients

  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil (remember the olive oil you buy matters)
  • 3 1/2 cups Kroger elbow macaroni (Mom said Grandma always insisted that it had to be Kroger brand…???)  *These days I love Einkorn pasta and it always turns out!
  • Cold butter for greasing your dish (Mom uses a can of no-stick spray, but a cold stick of butter is just as easy and without the chemicals…Oh and pastured butter is always best…)
  • Sea salt & pepper to your taste
  • 2-8 ounce packages of shredded sharp or extra sharp cheddar cheese
  • Milk – about 1-2 cups
  • Few slices of colby cheese for the top
  • 5 or 6 more pats of butter for the top

Instructions

Boil water in a large pan, add olive oil. Add macaroni and stir well several times during the 8 minutes it cooks. Drain well in a colander, running hot water over the macaroni. Use a cold stick of butter to grease a large 4 quart glass bowl and add the macaroni. (See my updated note below about the size of pan I use these days.) Add sea salt, pepper, and the cheese, stir well. Add milk just until you can see it coming up the sides of the macaroni.  Put colby cheese and butter on top.  Bake 375*-400* for about 1 1/4 hours, depending on how hot your oven is – it should be just light brown on top.  Note:  These days I often bake it in a big 10×14 stainless steel baking pan, because my favorite part is the browned cheese on top, and this way there is a lot more of the yummy cheese in each serving.

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Comments

  1. jackie says

    August 19, 2014 at 1:11 AM

    i have always made a roux first…maybe kroegers pasta makes it thicker without that step..
    i use trader joes brown rice pastas and they are excellent

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  2. jmr says

    August 12, 2014 at 1:02 PM

    I have so many hand-written recipes from my aunt and grandmothers who are no longer living. Each time I pull out one of those recipe cards, I am able to spend some time remembering my grandma/aunt and thinking about times when she made the recipe, times we spent together. Because my family was never particularly close, those recipes are the things that now bind us closest together, the thing that most says, “we are one family and have one tradition”.

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  3. Julie says

    August 12, 2014 at 12:04 PM

    This hand written recipe deserves to be framed and hung in your kitchen.

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    • KitchenKop says

      August 12, 2014 at 11:23 PM

      I love that idea, Julie, thank you so much, I’m going to do it!!!
      Kel

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  4. Jackie says

    August 12, 2014 at 11:14 AM

    Okay, I am sitting in my home office working. It is quite chilly and very rainy outside. I am thinking about what to fix for dinner. I’m thinking some cold weather comfort food would be perfect, but what? Then Kelly posted this recipe. Guess what is for dinner tonight!!!

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    • KitchenKop says

      August 12, 2014 at 11:23 PM

      Let me know how it turns out for you, Jackie!
      Kel

      Reply
  5. Leah G says

    June 27, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    WE just got our order of cheese from Azure and I was in need of something different for lunch. Made this with rice noodles, slightly under cooked them, surplus raw cream in place of milk (2cups was perfect). Cooked at 400 for 45 min and it was gorgeous. Everyone loved it!

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  6. kelsey cearley says

    January 1, 2012 at 6:10 PM

    This is by far the best mac n cheese recipe I have came across and I have been trying for over a year to get it right. I think the trick is in the colby cheese. My noodles didn’t get as cheesy as I would have liked and it could have been the liquid ratio, however, next time I will try adding some shredded colby jack. Also, I measured the milk and didn’t quite use the 2 cups, but will next time. Great recipe! Thanks!

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  7. Kelly says

    April 7, 2009 at 5:58 PM

    Kathy,

    I know what you mean, sometimes I don’t feel like ww either, but I think that the white pasta or white flour is just plain ol’ not good for us, so the less the better. (It’s so refined, denatured, whatever – no nutrients in it, just a carb filler.) Having said that, I do still compromise with white pasta sometimes, or actually I just cook much less pasta dishes than I used to. I don’t mind the ww pasta in tomato based dishes at all, though. White flour I haven’t gotten totally away from, either. I usually use half white, half ww in cookies and breads. It’s my goal to use less all the time.

    You mentioned wheat being bad for us, did you see my post about alternative grains? https://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/10/gluten-allergy-or-wheat-sensitivity.html

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    • Jamie says

      September 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM

      We are not fans of ww pasta either, but we really like brown rice pasta. It seems to be much closer to white in taste and texture. And it’s not wheat!

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      • KitchenKop says

        September 8, 2012 at 12:37 AM

        I have friends who also love the brown rice pasta, but I don’t know if I’m cooking too long or what but I can’t seem to get it to taste right!

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  8. Kathy says

    April 7, 2009 at 8:51 AM

    I have my grandmother’s 1st editon of the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I use it for basice recipes like these because there are many traditional recipes still in there. I may have to convert a thing or two but that is okay. So if you see one of these cookbooks at a garage sale grab it up.

    Also I have a question for the readers, how much pasta or other things made of white flour do you feel is okay to eat now and then and how often do you eat them? I am not always in the mood for whole wheat pasta. PLUS I keep reading about how bad wheat is for us also. I think I read to many of these blogs. LOL

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  9. Kelly says

    March 1, 2009 at 10:14 PM

    Hi Margaret,

    1. The heat from the oven doesn’t kill “everything”, there are still some nutrients there, but no enzymes.
    2. 1/4 gallon? Wow, that is a lot, I should re-word the recipe – I think Mom always says to pour in the milk until you can just see it coming up around the sides of the macaroni. Sorry about that. I think when I do it it ends up being more like 1 1/2 to 2 cups, but that’s just a guess. I should keep better track next time I make it.

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  10. Margaret Merkel says

    March 1, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    I made Mona Lou’s Mac and Cheese and I have two issues
    1.) I used my raw cow milk and the heat from the oven kills everything in it right?
    2.) It was very milky – very runny – my Husband almost had a heart attack when he saw all of that hot milk – I poured the milk in so it was even with the mac and cheese like the recipe directions stated – which ended up being about 1/4 gallon. Next time I will use much less milk.
    It was quite yummy though – the kids loved it. 🙂

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  11. Kelly says

    January 4, 2009 at 9:32 PM

    Hi Amber,

    Yes, I froze it before baking, let it thaw on the counter for an afternoon (or longer), then baked like normal. 🙂

    Kelly

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  12. Amber says

    January 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM

    When you freeze this, do you just prepare it as directed without baking it and freeze it, then thawing it and cooking it as directed when needed?

    Reply

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