Baked Mac & Cheese - 1st Ever Attempt

OK, so I am making a baked macaroni and cheese to take to a pool party and cookout today. Since I've never done this before, I figured I'd attempt to capture it all in photographs. I'll post a finished photo later as it's baking right now. Man, do I hope this tastes good. I got this recipe from a friend - it's somewhere online, but I could not tell you where. I doubled everything since I am making it for a lot of people. I'm listing the ingredients as the recipe called for, but when you look at the photos remember I doubled everything. Pray it is yummy!

Ingredients



2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
1 1/2 cups of sour cream
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tablespoon pepper
10 oz bar mild Cheddar cheese, grated

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Cook macaroni in salted boiling water according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water. Pour into a 3 quart casserole.







3. In a saucepan, melt butter and stir in flour. Gradually stir in milk and sour cream. Add salt and pepper.



4. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sauce bubbles and thickens.



5a. Reserve 1 cup grated cheese for the top of the casserole. Toss macaroni with remaining cheese.



5b. Realize that when you double the recipe, a 9x13 3 quart casserole dish is not deep enough and you will need to make a change.



6. Pour sauce over macaroni and mix thoroughly. Sprinkle with reserved cheese.





7. Bake for 1 hour, or until bubbly and brown.



8. Serve immediately. (Um, not. Hope that doesn't affect how it turns out.)

Serves 6. (Or, in my case.. serves 12.)

Summer!

We have been enjoying a nice, relaxing summer break. We spent a good bit of June in Florida. Logan and Colleen have decided they love the beach, and Patrick and I have decided that we are going to have to plan more trips to the beach more often when we go to visit Grammy and Grand Dad.

Both kids are in swimming lessons again this week. They took a week of lessons between our two trips to FL and loved it. Our first lesson was to be last night, but it was canceled due to a thunderstorm.

We went to Six Flags yesterday. They both loved it. Colleen is going to be my roller coaster rider. I just knew the Wiley (sp?) Coyote kid coaster was going to scare her. The hills were pretty steep for a kid coaster, I thought. But, Logan and Colleen both loved it. There were a few rides I couldn't get Colleen off of. Thankfully, there was no line and they let us ride again.

OK, that's all I have for now. I'll try to post some pictures soon.