Original Mac n Cheese

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Submitted by styleprdiva on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 10:23
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When I was approached to do this I jumped then thought well, there are only two of us here and to be honest I just don't cook that way any more. I am a competitive bodybuilder as I train in the wee hours here in Pa, and pasta is now one of those foreign objects! So I pulled out my grandmothers mac n cheese her receipt that feed us on cold nights when my parents were away. Is there anything special about the recipe? No, not really besides that fact that it was my grandmothers and has no truffle oils or anything of that nature in it just good old basic food that we all grew up on and it is hard to break that chain of comfort food. The other issue we had here is that my spousal equivalent is having a procedure done today, so he had to fast for two days ! The kitchen was not the place to be with 5 types of cheeses hanging out and all that good stuff, needless to say he hung out in the living room ~ thank god for football!!! My neighbors kids were happy and truth be told they never had any other type of MnC that had not come out of a box! HOW HORRID! So here is the recipe with a few tweaks over the years but just basic macncheese !~~ one box of elbows ( we used whole grain organic wheat ) 1/2 lb provolone 1/2 lb colby jack 1/2 lb of mozzarella 1/2 lb of Swiss large container of Ricotta low fat we started with layers of Colby jack on the bottom and then just rotated the cheeses out layer by layer . Lastly we added the lowfat milk~ Our top layer is all of the cheeses minus the ricotta so we indeed created what my brother and I all used to fight for the dark edges as that was the BEST!