Mac n Cheese

Today we made Mac n Cheese

The recipe was ....

Ingredients

Macaroni pasta - 250 g
Butter, salted - 50 g
Plain flour - 1/4 cup
Milk - 2 cups
dry mustard - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Grated tasty cheese - 2 cups

Method

• Cook the macaroni according to packet directions.
• While the macaroni is cooking, melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and mix in the flour until smooth.
• Return to the heat and cook stirring until the mixture is frothy. Mix in the mustard.
• Remove from the heat and mix in a little milk at a time, stirring after each addition until smooth.
• Return to the heat and cook until the sauce boils and thickens. Mix in the salt and cheese.
• Drain pasta well, shaking the macaroni to remove as much water as possible Spoon into a serving dish and grill until lightly golden.

Describe a Skill

The skills that I learnt in this lesson include cooking pasta and making a white sauce
During today’s lesson I boiled the pasta in a pan then I made a white cheese sauce to go with it.
One of the skills we learned today was making the white sauce.
First of all you have melt the butter and mix in the flour. This needs to be cooked in the pan so the flour is cooked. It was ready when it bubbled. 

We then had to add the milk. This had to be done in really small amounts at a time and mixed really well in between so that the sauce did not become lumpy.

The sauce then had to be cooked on the stove top until it had thickened and was bubbling a little. If it was too thick we had to add a little more milk.

The cheese was then added which melted into the sauce.

Reflection

What went well was the sauce. It was nice and smooth but I had to add quite a lot more milk as it went quite thick. 

What did not go quite as well was that it took a long time to go brown in the oven. This was because it was at the bottom. The food at the top browned quicker.

I think this food would be great when you need something quick and yummy to fill you up. Making a lot all together would be good and you can put some in the freezer for later.