People are calling it “mid” and “basic” because it is. Because the average person doesn’t understand that feeding your family is not always worthy of an M star. Yes, even for professional cooks…
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shonkshonkshonk
>Because the average person doesn’t understand that feeding your family is not always worthy of an M star
I understand that. This recipe is still mid.
El_Mariachi_Vive
That’s a high school home ec recipe at best lol. Something can be a mid or basic recipe but still be delicious and satisfying. My recipe for white rice, fried eggs and spam, for example.
Appropriate_Past_893
This might actually answer for me how my wife’s grandmothers “legendary” mac and cheese was made. Features a crispy crust by just cooking the bejesus out of the pasta
Gonji89
Honestly I hate baked Mac and cheese when it’s made like this. The pasta gets both too soft in places, too hard in others, and rubbery in others.
Literally just a layer of butter-soaked, toasted panko on top and it elevates this recipe.
Maumau93
If it’s not a bechamel it’s not mac’n’cheese in my book. I hate milk and cheese recipes…
longdistancerunner01
IS Anthony Bourdain one of the Most Famous chefs ever?
Psynyde17
Cheap, easy, quick, good. This sounds like a mom recipe to me.
ColonelJohn_Matrix
You can make an actual, good, pasta and cheese sauce in half the time.
Starpork
Bourdain wrote in at least one of his books that when he was still in the kitchen he only cooked simply at home and often didn’t cook at all. So it’s pretty on-brand to have offered up something simple like this.
whiplash6700
Christ, Anthony wasn’t even that great of a chef, he said so himself
MaxiwellMiddle
Love Bourdain, but this recipe is shit.
Human_Resources_7891
Anthony Bourdain was a brilliant television journalist, and a competent chef, there is no authority on record of someone stating that he was a talented chef. his cookbook was awful, every fourth recipe telling you to scrape down the brown bits cause that’s where the flavor is!
NoVaVol
This is some Tennessee church basement potluck wedding reception shit. And I’d eat the shit out of it.
Source: been to a lot of Tennessee church basement wedding receptions
SuburbaniteMermaid
All respect to Bourdain but that’s one shitty recipe
Sonnyjoon91
Are we really shitting on someone’s Mom’s recipe? Its not like he is saying this is Michelin Star or revolutionary, its the hominess of simple food made by a tired mom, which makes it the best in the world to a kid.
Fennel_Daph
It’s his mom’s recipe, one of my favorite things in the world is my Moms’ chicken and biscuit casserole. It has canned cream of chicken soup and it’s not fancy. But it brings back childhood memories and those memories make it that much better. People who are shit talking his Mom’s recipe can fuck right off.
TheLondonPidgeon
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SquareThings
This is essentially my mom’s recipe for mac and cheese. Nothing is wrong with it, it’s just not amazing
Grecoair
Stick butter by the measure. Now that’s a thing I haven’t seen in a long while. I’m old.
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>Because the average person doesn’t understand that feeding your family is not always worthy of an M star
I understand that. This recipe is still mid.
That’s a high school home ec recipe at best lol. Something can be a mid or basic recipe but still be delicious and satisfying. My recipe for white rice, fried eggs and spam, for example.
This might actually answer for me how my wife’s grandmothers “legendary” mac and cheese was made. Features a crispy crust by just cooking the bejesus out of the pasta
Honestly I hate baked Mac and cheese when it’s made like this. The pasta gets both too soft in places, too hard in others, and rubbery in others.
Literally just a layer of butter-soaked, toasted panko on top and it elevates this recipe.
If it’s not a bechamel it’s not mac’n’cheese in my book. I hate milk and cheese recipes…
IS Anthony Bourdain one of the Most Famous chefs ever?
Cheap, easy, quick, good. This sounds like a mom recipe to me.
You can make an actual, good, pasta and cheese sauce in half the time.
Bourdain wrote in at least one of his books that when he was still in the kitchen he only cooked simply at home and often didn’t cook at all. So it’s pretty on-brand to have offered up something simple like this.
Christ, Anthony wasn’t even that great of a chef, he said so himself
Love Bourdain, but this recipe is shit.
Anthony Bourdain was a brilliant television journalist, and a competent chef, there is no authority on record of someone stating that he was a talented chef. his cookbook was awful, every fourth recipe telling you to scrape down the brown bits cause that’s where the flavor is!
This is some Tennessee church basement potluck wedding reception shit. And I’d eat the shit out of it.
Source: been to a lot of Tennessee church basement wedding receptions
All respect to Bourdain but that’s one shitty recipe
Are we really shitting on someone’s Mom’s recipe? Its not like he is saying this is Michelin Star or revolutionary, its the hominess of simple food made by a tired mom, which makes it the best in the world to a kid.
It’s his mom’s recipe, one of my favorite things in the world is my Moms’ chicken and biscuit casserole. It has canned cream of chicken soup and it’s not fancy. But it brings back childhood memories and those memories make it that much better. People who are shit talking his Mom’s recipe can fuck right off.
🥹
This is essentially my mom’s recipe for mac and cheese. Nothing is wrong with it, it’s just not amazing
Stick butter by the measure. Now that’s a thing I haven’t seen in a long while. I’m old.