The rise of macaroni cheese!

Sorry, kitty, in a word - no . Be interested if others have as our older two grandchildren say they love the stuff, never on the menu here.

It's a 'thing' isn't it, corner?

We love Mac 'n Cheese, it's not the boring sloppy white sauce stuff, but made from my mother's recipe:

Make a base sauce of fried, chopped onion and tomato.

Cook the macaroni pasta.

Layer the onion and tomato sauce, then layer of pasta, then grated cheese (liberally). Repeat.

Eat until none left.

Beat 2 eggs into a cup of whole milk, season with salt and pepper and pour over the waiting pasta dish tilting it this way and that to distribute.

Bake for about 35 minutes until "risen" (it sort of puffs out like a pie) golden brown and the final layer of cheese has melted.

Oops "Eat until none left" was meant to be at the end

Love it. Similar recipe to above but haven’t used the tomato except sliced on top. Accompanied by toast. Yummy !

Oh, forgot to say , I put a little bit of mustard in the sauce.

I make it sometimes, nice with a mixed salad.
I make a strong cheese sauce and add the cooked pasta. Sprinkle some grated cheese and breadcrumbs on the top to make a nice crunch when it's baked.
I sometimes add some chopped, fried bacon. Never tried it with tomato in the dish although I have served roasted tomatoes with it as a side, with toast or garlic bread.

I love it. I just make mine the traditional way, with a white sauce base, to which I add loads of strong Cheddar and a goodly amount of mustard powder, then plenty more grated cheese to give it a crispy topping. The only thing I've ever added occasionally is a tin of sweetcorn. I think the tasteless stuff most of us remember was just due to stinginess with the cheese.

I think it is the most boring dish on the planet, but my both DH and DD would eat it all day long. Like jusnoneed I think it is marginally improved by the addition of a bit of chopped ham or bacon (ANYTHING!!), but DH likes it straight (DD is veggie so bacon is a no-no).

It was a staple meal when DH and I were penniless students! I used to crumble an OXO cube in for added flavour!

I used to dread this on the school dinner Menu, but you all make it sound delicious!

Not for me Thank you.

Macaroni cheese is my perfect comfort food. I got the job of cooking it for the family when I was a teenager. Strong cheddar and a dash of mustard were the secret to making it a very tasty offering and by no means dull.

I like it with crushed cheese and onion crisps as a topping!

I love it and having been without the use of an oven since before Christmas it is easy to make using a microwave. I intend to batch cook it today and freeze it having bought several single plastic lidded dishes in a sale. Cheap, tasty no nonsense food.

Never made this before but now I've seen recipe going to give it a go love the addition of cheese and onion crisps

I make a strong cheese sauce add diced onion, diced cooked gammon add the cooked macaroni , pour into a dish scatter grated cheese on top then top with sliced tomatoes .

It’s always a must at our family Christmas get together, my niece gets the job of producing it. The younger members of the family just love it & I have to say the dish gets bigger ever time, so what ever the recipe she’s doing something right! It is scrummy though?

Lots of mature cheddar in the sauce. Add bacon and onions. The favourite topping here is a layer of sliced tomatoes then finished with cheese and breadcrumbs for a crispy top.
My late MiL made it with very little cheese but with mince and baked beans.
I hated it but the kids loved it - a treat enjoyed only at Granny's house!

Ginny, that is macaroni pie, I love it and it is great to take on picnics when cold. I fry the onions with red, green and yellow peppers and sun dried tomatoes if I have any opened. Quantities to suit your taste and I use a lot of freshly ground black pepper and a little salt when whisking the egg and milk. Fresh tomato slices only on the top, not inside and sometimes breadcrumbs mixed with the cheddar on the top. Well, that's solved what's for lunch.

I'm with anno on this. The number 1 comfort food! It used to be scrambled egg as a child but now it's mc every time. I'm lucky enough to have a friend who deposits a portion on my doormat if she discovers I'm under the weather. Blessed indeed. And hers is far superior to mine which is a double whammy.

I love it - useful if you want a meat-free meal. It may be old-fashioned, but one of our daughter's friends has made quite a successful business out of preparing potfuls of the stuff and selling it at outdoor events, music festivals etc.

I also make cauliflower cheese (the only way I can eat cauliflower!).

Sorry should have acknowledged Grannyknot's original recipe.

I love it but due to eating to much of it when we were first married and penniless DH can't stand. Remember doing a few streaky bacon rashers and tomatoes to cheer it up.