Whole grain pasta works very well in this dish.ĭon’t half the recipe unless you want your husband to nearly bite your finger off. My mother-in-law used one cup of pepper jack, and said it was excellent. Using two kinds of cheese adds a nice depth. Set the slow cooker on low setting and cook for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.Then add drained macaroni and stir again.In a slow cooker, combine cheese/butter mixture and add the sour cream, soup, salt, milk, mustard and pepper and stir well.In a medium saucepan, mix butter and cheese.Boil the macaroni in a 2 quart saucepan in plenty of water until mostly tender, about 7 minutes. Drain.1 (10 3/4-ounce) can condensed Cheddar cheese soup.There is a time and a place for pre-grated cheese. 2 1/2 cups (about 10 ounces) grated sharp Cheddar cheese (Do yourself a favor and grate your own cheese.4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, cut into pieces.2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni (an 8-ounce box isn’t quite 2 cups).This recipe will make a mess of your stoneware. I use them for larger recipes that look like they’ll crust up the side of the stoneware. Since slow cooker recipes do best in a fuller vessel, small recipes sometimes cook funny in my 6.5 quart crock pot. The leftovers are already in a refrigerator appropriate container.ģ. It saves me from having to scrub the gigantic slow cooker insert.Ģ. If I’m making a smaller slow cooker recipe, I put my smallest oval Corningware dish inside my slow cooker’s removable stoneware, put the recipe inside the dish, put the dish lid on, AND the Crock Pot lid. I use them all the time, but my favorite use is in the Crock Pot. I have a set of CorningWare bakeware set that my husband and I received as a wedding gift almost ten years ago.

I’m going to share a tip with you that I should have mentioned months ago. Good news! The kids like mac and cheese again! I did not calculate the calories in this dish, but if I had to guess, I would say one serving is about 46 bazillion calories. Of course, this macaroni and cheese is no Kraft, so we ate all of it, and we grown-ups fought over the last 1/4 cup like a pack of wild dogs.

The last thing I need in my refrigerator is leftover macaroni and cheese. My sizable behind needs to get ready for some book signings, and I have a serious case of blogger butt right now. Because of the macaroni and cheese boycott of 2012/2013, I halved the recipe. If I didn’t feed all of my friends’ kids mac and cheese every time I hosted a play date, we’d still be sitting on 11 boxes. My kids haven’t been eating macaroni and cheese for over a year now, which started immediately after I bought a 12 pack of Kraft from Costco. My husband has been asking when we were going to try a side dish recipe for Crock Pot Thursday, and I was excited about this one’s short cook time.

Creamy crockpot mac and cheese