Food on a Budget: mac & cheese

Food Feature: How to make mac and cheese

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Melissa Wong

Ingredients:

1 Microwavable mug

1 Microwavable bowl

1 Box of (Catelli) Macaroni noodles 

1 Pinch of Salt

2 Cups of Cold Water

1 spoon of Corn Starch

A corner Block Marble Cheese

A bag of grated Marble Cheese

½ of a Honey Maid Wafer

Directions:

In advance, cut a corner of a block of marble cheese into small cubes

The first step is to fill a microwavable mug up halfway with macaroni noodles

The mac and cheese is now ready to eat.
The grated cheese can be stirred into the noodles.
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Fill the mug with enough water to fully submerge all the noodles and add a pinch of salt.

Put an empty microwavable bowl in a microwave/microwave oven and put the mug inside the bowl. The bowl will catch any water that spills out of the mug once it comes to a boil inside the microwave.

Cook in a microwave oven for 2 minutes. A regular microwave may need 3 or more.

Remove the mug and bowl from the microwave and press a spoon to the expanded noodles. Pour the excess water from the mug into the bowl. The noodles are bigger so they should not easily fall out so the spoon should keep them in place.

Once drained, mix up the noodles and pour them into the now emptied bowl.

Add the milk, black pepper and spoon of corn starch to the noodles and then mix the noodles with the other ingredients. Mix it well.

Break off half a Honey Maid Wafer or gram cracker and break it into crumbs. Pour the crumbs on top of the mac and cheese as a topping.

Place the bowl back into the microwave/microwave oven.

Cook in a microwave oven for 1 minute. A regular microwave may need 2 or more.

Take the bowl out of the microwave and add Kraft cheese on top of the mac and cheese.

 

Tip: Add cooked, diced vegetables to the mac and cheese when added the cubed cheese pieces to the noodles.  

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