Main dish with baked macaroni and cheese?!
Main dish with baked macaroni and cheese?
I want to try baked macaroni and cheese tonight... would that be the main dish? or can you think of a good main dish to go with it?
Any ideas for any sides? Dessert? Maybe even an alcoholic drink? lol
Inspire me! Thanks :)
Answers:
Mac and Cheese can be a main dish with a side salad.
But I'd rather have pork chops with the mac and cheese as a side.
Dessert... since it's in-season, fresh strawberries+blueberries and sweetened whipped cream
A wine I would pick is probably a white - chardonnay or a sauvignon blanc.
Baked mac and cheese is definitely a main dish. If you want something else to go with it, make it light like a salad because the mac cheese isn't the most healthy dish to make. Instead of using all cheddar like in a lot of recipes, I use about three to four different types for a different taste. It's yummy.
I think a baked honey ham is delish with Mac and cheese. Good luck with the clean up I hope you own nonstick pans
u can make that main dish just add diced cooked chicken breast slices to it
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Bake chicken breasts with Italian dressing in a covered dish while your mac and cheese is baking. Add a light salad, or a veggie tray and you have a meal fit for a King!
It could be your main dish. All you would need to add would be a nice tossed salad. The cheese would be your source of protien and dairy, so it's well rounded. For my neice's birthday every year, I do her favorite "comfort" meal, meatloaf, mac and cheese and steamed green beans. Because of the season and the fact she doesn't like cake, I usually do a strawberry shortcake and fancy it up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a shortcake half and top with the sliced strawberries with their juice and a dollop of whipped cream.
Fish, hot dogs or hamburgers all sound good to me. And a nice cold beer after all that cooking. Enjoy your macaroni !!!!!
you can't have mac& cheese for a main dish because it is a side dish, it's good with fish and pork chops all most any meat, you could have cole slaw with it and make brownnies for dessert, because macaroni & cheese is a havey dish so you want every thing else to be light,
I have to have baked beans with my mac&cheese. Don't forget the Velveta.
IF YOU WANT IT TO BE THE MAY DISH, THEN YOU SHOULD ADD SOME STEAM ASPARAGUS,AND SPINACH SALAD.. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE BROIL FILET OF FISH LIKE RED SNAPPER, THE MAC AND CHEESE, AND A SIMPLE SALAD OF TOMATOS,SCALLION ONIONS,AND SPANISH OLIVES,,,FOR DESERT SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE LIKE BERRIES, OF VARIES KIND AND MAKE A YOGURT CREAM WITH A LITTLE HONEY AND CINNAMON,,IF YOU WANT A DRINK ,I LOVE WHITE WINE SANGRIA WITH CITRUS FRUITS , NAMASTE
I love home made mac and cheese, and when my budget is tight i make a large amount, I add my meat to it, like hamburger and stewed tomatoes, or ham and onion, or chicken, when your poor you get inventive... good luck, as for desert, hershey bar pie, hershey bars with almonds melted halfway in microwave, a container of cool whip mix them together put in a grahm cracker crust, freeze till set, a good drink with that would be kahluha...
I liked to make a nice baked chicken breast with mac n cheese, also a side of maybe green beans and how about a nice lemonade. That sounds too good right about now!
BAKED HAM STEAK
1 center cut ham steak (2-3" thick)
Brown sugar
Dry mustard
1 sm. can Pet milk
Hand pack ham with mustard and brown sugar. Place in heavy skillet. Cover with Pet milk. Bake covered at 325 degrees for 1 1/2-2 hours, until ham is fork tender
ITALIAN HONEY MUSTARD BAKED CHICKEN
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/3 c. Italian dressing
1 bulb garlic (or less/more to your taste)
3/4 tbsp mustard powder
3/4 tbsp honey
2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 400F.
1. Place Chicken in a glass casserole dish that has a cover.
2. Sprinkle salt over chicken.
2. Pour italian dressing over chicken.
3. Peel cloves from Garlic Bulb and scatter them over the chicken.
4. Sprinkle mustard powder over chicken.
5. Drizzle Honey over chicken.
6. Cover casserole dish and bake for 1 hour or until chicken is cooked through.
Serves 4.
To make it a main dish you can just add packaged tuna or salmon before you bake to make it like a cassarole. Or one of my favorite comfort food to go with the plain mac and cheese I pan fried porkchops
To make as a main dish, add drained tuna fish, diced tomatos, chopped onions and any other veggies you wish. (ex. a can of peas or corn, etc) Mix it all together and spread tomato slices on top, cover with bread crumbs and bake. Serve with a salad.
OR
Southwestern Mac & Cheese bake:
In a frying pan, cook up some ground beef (or turkey!) with a packet of taco seasoning. Drain, and mix with the prepared mac + cheese. In baking dish, one layer of mac/meat mixture, then a layer of salsa, another layer of mac/meat mix, top with lots of diced tomatos, breadcrumbs and shreaded cheese. Serve with cold cold beer!
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