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The BEST Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese | Tanny Cooks Style



I make Mac and cheese several different ways, but this recipe is my favorite!

Click on this video (https://youtube.com/shorts/4XoWVlkSw8Y) see the wild range of comments on my Mac and Cheese Shorts video from last year (and be ready to laugh)!!!

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47 Comments

  4. @m12hequus

    This is how I grew up eating mac & cheese. I don’t know where all of this rue and garlic came from. 😕

  8. @SL-kh5zl

    When I saw the short you posted of your baked mac and cheese, that let me know that you definitely know what you are doing in the kitchen! So I had to subscribe. Thank you for sharing your mac and cheese recipe..it's exactly how I like mine. Some new school may not know too much about the delicious grandma recipes.😊 Thanks for sharing the recipe.

  12. @PrincessJasmine824

    Right!!!! People making that rue making y'all think it taste good! But right here in your recipe it looks good n it's finna taste good!!!!

  16. @MiaMore.

    👏🏼👏🏼💯💯 this is how I was taught (with a few adjustments)by THE BEST OLD SCHOOL REAL southern chefs (named mamma) lol Even people who don't like baked mac n cheese LOOOOVE my mac! I can make 6 pans and it's ALWAYS the 1st thing to run out!! TRUST this is it (and easy)!!!!

  17. @MiaMore.

    👏🏼👏🏼💯💯 this is how I was taught (with a few adjustments)by THE BEST OLD SCHOOL REAL southern chefs (named mamma) lol Even people who don't like baked mac n cheese LOOOOVE my mac! I can make 6 pans and it's ALWAYS the 1st thing to run out!! TRUST this is it (and easy)!!!!

  19. @airyair9889

    Tanny just want to thank you so much for this longer video. In a world of boxed Mac & cheese type recipes, many of us needed this so badly. We remember the look, the texture and how it had a degree of stiffness to it. We knew our moms and grannies made it this way and they knew nothing about no rue lol!.

  20. @nuelle2361

    Thank you! This is the way I like my Mac and cheese. None of that velveta or cheese sauce for me. Made this recipe for my family for Thanksgiving and they finished the whole pan in one day lol

  29. @AmethystTheEspeon

    I like fluffy Mac and cheese. I do mine similar, only I season my noodles with paprika, pepper, Mrs. Dash herb seasoning, and a little bit of Adobo. 😋

  33. @clydearrington3282

    Thank you for sharing this recipe.. it brings me back to my childhood. I have been looking for this recipe for years.. thank you so much 😊 you are an Angel

  38. @kevinjones5715

    I've watched dozens of mac and cheese recipes and this is the first one that I think I'm going to like just by looking at the finished product. After it's baked we can see it's creamy, but firm, no some stringy greasy soupy mess.
    THIS one looks good.

  39. @miraclewhirley8525

    I followed it to a T and it came out so so well. It was my first time making it, and It was a hit ! Thank you so much for sharing with us

  44. @bmike4321

    I’m glad no one steered you from what you know. Your recipe is 1000% the way you make traditional homemade Mac & cheese. So many people are used to eating cheap & quick, now they don’t know what authentic food looks like.

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