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Kardea’s special recipe for Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Baked Mac ‘n’ Cheese tastes like a warm hug in bowl 🥣🤗 The high egg content means it’ll bake up almost like a soufflé!
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Kardea Brown shares down-home, Southern recipes from her South Carolina kitchen. The cook and caterer was born and raised on the sea islands of Charleston, the heart of all Southern cooking, and learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen. These days, she takes generations of family recipes and makes them her own as she cooks for family and friends at her Sea Island home.

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Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Baked Mac ‘N’ Cheese
RECIPE COURTESY OF KARDEA BROWN
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 50 min (includes cooling time)
Active: 30 min
Yield: 12 servings

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, plus more for the baking dish
1 pound elbow macaroni
1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more for the pasta water
Two 12-ounce cans evaporated milk
1 3/4 cups heavy cream
6 large eggs
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Three 8-ounce blocks extra-sharp Cheddar, shredded
One 8-ounce block sharp Cheddar, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Nonstick cooking spray, for the foil

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the inside of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with butter.

Cook the macaroni to al dente according to the package directions in boiling salted water. Drain the pasta and return to the pasta pot or pour into the prepared baking dish. Add the butter and stir until combined.

Whisk together the evaporated milk, heavy cream, eggs, garlic powder, salt and pepper in a large bowl; add to the macaroni. Set aside 1 cup shredded extra-sharp Cheddar for the top. Stir in the remaining shredded cheese and cubed cheese. Sprinkle the reserved shredded cheese evenly over the top.

Cover the dish with aluminum foil (coat the underside with nonstick cooking spray). Bake until the pasta is bubbly, about 40 minutes. Uncover and bake until the cheese is browned, 15 minutes longer. Remove from the oven and let stand 15 minutes before serving.

Cook’s Note: Brown the macaroni under the broiler for 5 minutes if needed.

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Kardea Brown’s Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Baked Mac ’n’ Cheese | Delicious Miss Brown | Food Network

Now I’m going to get started on Grandma’s mac and cheese this is an old school Southern way of making macaroni and cheese there’s no fuss it is fail proof and I have to make it for Grandma this Thanksgiving I have cooked one lound of elbow macaroni till it’s Al

Dente that means it’s still has a little bite to it you don’t want to overcook your noodles because it’ll get really soggy in the oven cuz you have to continue to cook it in the oven so you want to cook it till it’s just out Dente

That means it’s still a little stiff one stick of unsalted melted butter I have six eggs the first thing I ever learned how to make by myself was my grandma’s macaroni and cheese I was at my sister’s house and you guys have probably heard the story before we were all cooking and

Like everyone has to make their own dish so they assigned me macaroni and cheese little do they know I had never cooked before by at least by myself without adult supervision and I said I’ll make the macaroni and cheese and I’m like oh Lord how do I make the macaroni and

Cheese I called my grandma’s like Grandma I’m making your macaroni and cheese what do I need to put in it well she’s like well who’s letting you cook in that kitchen I said arleene and she said okay well if you have to make it you know put a little

Egg and evaporated milk the canned milk is what she call it canned milk and if they have some that heavy cream around if you wanted a little richer you use the heavy cream and you season your noodles and stuff with salt pepper garlic powder and you shred up your

Cheese so I just remember what she said and I remembered what I watched basically my entire um childhood and I just pray to the gods above please just guide me through this macaroni and cheese because I don’t want them to talk about me so I made the macaroni and

Cheese and it was a hit a hit so I’ve been making it this way ever since I do have my other versions but this right here it’s my go-to so I have six eggs in this bowl that I’ve combined with two cans of evaporated milk a teaspoon of

Garlic powder season with a little salt and pepper I like a lot of freshly cracked black Pepper pour my egg and milk mixture into my casserole dish that I’ve sprayed with non-stick spray and my noodles give it a mix and remember I have that melted butter in there as well okay two cups of heavy Cream have some cubed sharp cheddar here now back when my grandmother used to make this and I would be her little helper she wouldn’t let me cut the cheese but she would let me like put the uh cheese from her cutting board into a bowl and she’ll turn around and she like

Well did you put the cheese in the bowl and by the time she turns around the cheese was gone I would eat this that was my duty hand shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese about a pound and a half that extra sharp gives it a little extra Tain

The trick to making creamy and cheesy southern baked macaroni and cheese is to make make sure that your noodles are swimming in milk and cheese you don’t want to see any exposed noodles no naked noodles before I cover this I’m going to sprinkle with more cheese on top to get

A nice even layer of cheese this looks incredible I have my oven preheated to 350 I’m going to bake this off for about 40 minutes or until it gets nice and bubbly in the inside and then I’m going to take the foil off and let it cook for additional 10 to 15

Minutes or until the top is browned and what I also like to do is spray my aluminum foil with a little non-stick spray so that cheese doesn’t stick that’s a trick grandma taught me oh my goodness my grandmother is going to be proud of me now that’s how you bake a macaroni cheese