When I make mac n cheese, that's what's for dinner. End of subject. Have a salad and/or a vegetable on the side, that's fine. I've seen mac n cheese as a side dish and it strikes me as weird. It doesn't really go with what I would think of as main dishes.
How about those cafeteria-style places that offer two vegetables as sides to the main dish, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cole slaw, potato salad, beans, or... mac and cheese.
I had never heard of such a thing, mac and cheese as a side dish, plus I didn't grow up on that blue box style of mac and cheese. I think those cafeteria type restaurants are more of a southern thing. First time I recall seing that was a Boston Market chicken kind of place.
KFC offers mac and cheese as a side, but they don't call them vegetables.
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I can't think what main dish I would find looking for a side of mac n cheese. Certainly not chicken. That's why God invented mashed potatoes.
Anywhere there's a starch as a side, you can substitute M&C. There's tons of those Lipton or Golden Grain pasta/rice + sauce sides that come in envelopes for ~$1 that are basically the same as M&C.
I had a funny thing happen a week or two ago. We have a large Korean computer store/gasoline station/bus stop/fried chicken/Chinese food buffet (yes, really). The Chinese food is great and I often stop to get my fix. I was there a week or so ago and among the General Tso's chicken, the beef and broccoli, lo mein, egg rolls and so forth was - you guessed it - macaroni and cheese.
We have huge, busy Chinese buffets here, and the one I frequent if filled with people from all over (with Caucasian a significant minority). Mac and Cheese, ice cream, onion rings and a standard salad bar (plus kimchee) is the USian part of it.
Spaghetti with pesto makes a great starchy side dish.
I prefer other pastas with my pesto, but, yes, it's a great side dish too... a bit more "grown up" than Mac & cheese (comfort food). I also prefer Alfredo as a side, not a main dish.
I can't think what main dish I would find looking for a side of mac n cheese. Certainly not chicken. That's why God invented mashed potatoes.
The favorite meal of a long-ago girlfriend was teriyaki flank steak accompanied by mac & cheese. The combination was nothing special to me, but it wasn't bad, either.
No offense meant, but that combination doesn't sound compatible to me.
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(My current girlfriend likes pasta and she likes cheese, but she can't get over a stereotype that mac & cheese is food for white trash.)
Oh, maybe I'm white trash, sometimes in the winter nothing will do but a nice crusty macaroni and cheese, extra cayenne. With the buttered bread crumbs on top. I freeze it in portions and that makes many a meal for the next few weeks.
Speaking of white trash food, I saw some commercial today that reminded me ... I really do like that elbow macaroni with mayo and tuna cold salad. I was kidding around, Hi, I'm Nancy, and I like macaroni tuna salad?
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I had a funny thing happen a week or two ago. We have a large Korean computer store/gasoline station/bus stop/fried chicken/Chinese food buffet (yes, really). The Chinese food is great and I often stop to get my fix. I was there a week or so ago and among the General Tso's chicken, the beef and broccoli, lo mein, egg rolls and so forth was - you guessed it - macaroni and cheese.
We have huge, busy Chinese buffets here, and the one I frequent if filled with people from all over (with Caucasian a significant minority). Mac and Cheese, ice cream, onion rings and a standard salad bar (plus kimchee) is the USian part of it.
We also have many Chinese buffets (large Asian population), and there's almost always an American section to the buffet, including all that you mentioned, plus things like boiled shrimp and boiled crawfish.
I had a funny thing happen a week or two ago. We have a large Korean computer store/gasoline station/bus stop/fried chicken/Chinese food
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broccoli, lo mein, egg rolls and so forth was - you guessed it -
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and cheese.
We have huge, busy Chinese buffets here, and the one I frequent if filled with people from all over (with Caucasian a significant minority). Mac and Cheese, ice cream, onion rings and a standard salad bar (plus kimchee) is the USian part of it.
Yes, I've eaten at those large Chinese buffets too but in this case it was just a small line of Chinese food plus the mac and cheese (a new addition to the line-up). It just looked oddly out of place. To each his own.
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... With the buttered bread crumbs on top.
I've converted to crushed Ritz crackers.
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Speaking of white trash food, I saw some commercial today that reminded me ... I really do like that elbow macaroni with mayo and tuna cold salad. I was kidding around, Hi, I'm Nancy, and I like macaroni tuna salad?
Fried Spam® & Velveeta® on WonderBread® with Miracle Whip®!!!!
When I make mac n cheese, that's what's for dinner. End of subject. Have a salad and/or a vegetable on the side, that's fine. I've seen mac n cheese as a side dish and it strikes me as weird. It doesn't really go with what I would think of as main dishes.
Macaroni & cheese is a popular side dish with meatloaf. For me, a meal consisting only of mac & cheese would seem strange. I sometimes make it as a side dish for steak, but not often.
I had a funny thing happen a week or two ago. We have a large Korean computer store/gasoline station/bus stop/fried chicken/Chinese food buffet (yes, really). The Chinese food is great and I often stop to get my fix. I was there a week or so ago and among the General Tso's chicken, the beef and broccoli, lo mein, egg rolls and so forth was - you guessed it - macaroni and cheese. I said to the Asian man replenishing the buffet, "er, macaroni and cheese? Is that Chinese?". Trouble was, he couldn't speak English so the question remains unanswered. One of life's mysteries.
I have seen mac & cheese offered at a number of those so called "Chinese buffets" here in the Philadelphia area. The mac & cheese is almost invariably disgusting looking so I have never tried it, but I noticed that it seems to be popular with little kids, so is the french fries and chicken nuggets that also appear on most of the Chinese buffets in my area. I try to avoid those places because the food is almost always blah and when I want Chinese food, I can get much better by going to a real Chinese restaurant, even if it is not really that authentic.
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I can't think what main dish I would find looking for a side of mac n cheese. Certainly not chicken. That's why God invented mashed potatoes.
The favorite meal of a long-ago girlfriend was teriyaki flank steak accompanied by mac & cheese. The combination was nothing special to me, but it wasn't bad, either.
(My current girlfriend likes pasta and she likes cheese, but she can't get over a stereotype that mac & cheese is food for white trash.)
Bob
if you can afford the flank steak, there's no reason you can't hold your head high.
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Bob
White trash? What about Black households who serve macaroni and cheese as a very elaborate dish? That is certainly different from something out of a box. Kraft Dinner is good and all, but it doesn't beat large elbow macaroni and a variety of tasty cheese!
KFC offers mac and cheese as a side, but they don't call them vegetables.
So does Boston Market, but I only ordered it once. Boston Market's mac & cheese was so overly salty that I couldn't finish it.
I agree that mac & cheese goes well anywhere there's a starch as a side dish. I mean, after all, fettocini alfredo is really just a fancy version of mac & cheese and lots of people eat that with chicken, fish, or beef.
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(My current girlfriend likes pasta and she likes cheese, but she can't get over a stereotype that mac & cheese is food for white trash.)
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White trash? What about Black households who serve macaroni and cheese as a very elaborate dish? That is certainly different from something out of a box. Kraft Dinner is good and all, but it doesn't beat large elbow macaroni and a variety of tasty cheese!
Cami!
My grandmother made a great mac & cheese and she wasn't white trash. Her mac & cheese was a main dish, but it wasn't fancy and I salivate whenever I think about it. Today, I would serve it as a side dish with pork chops or Italian sausages.
White trash? What about Black households who serve macaroni and cheese as a very elaborate dish? That is certainly different from something out of a box. Kraft Dinner is good and all, but it doesn't beat large elbow macaroni and a variety of tasty cheese!
Wasn't mac & cheese invented by Thomas Jefferson? He is certainly not anyone I would classify as white trash.
My grandmother made a great mac & cheese and she wasn't white trash. Her mac & cheese was a main dish, but it wasn't fancy and I salivate whenever I think about it. Today, I would serve it as a side dish with pork chops or Italian sausages.
When I was in the eighth grade, I signed up to take a home economics course as an elective. I thought I would leqrn some useful skills and meet some girls. I did learn a lot of useful skills, one of which was how to make mac & cheese from scratch. Unfortunately, most of the other students in that class were also guys who thought home ec would be a good way to meet girls!
White trash? What about Black households who serve macaroni and cheese as a very elaborate dish? That is certainly different from something out of a box. Kraft Dinner is good and all, but it doesn't beat large elbow macaroni and a variety of tasty cheese!
Wasn't mac & cheese invented by Thomas Jefferson? He is certainly not anyone I would classify as white trash.
I doubt he invented it. Perhaps one of his slaves made it and he liked it to the point that he served it to guests on informal occasions... say anything more than that and I'll be highly skeptical.
My grandmother made a great mac & cheese and she wasn't white trash. Her mac & cheese was a main dish, but it wasn't fancy and I salivate whenever I think about it. Today, I would serve it as a side dish with pork chops or Italian sausages.
When I was in the eighth grade, I signed up to take a home economics course as an elective. I thought I would leqrn some useful skills and meet some girls. I did learn a lot of useful skills, one of which was how to make mac & cheese from scratch.
do you remember the recipe? Those were always fail safe... like 4H, Boy Scout, Girl Scout recipes of today are.
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Unfortunately, most of the other students in that class were also guys who thought home ec would be a good way to meet girls!
Not a bad motive, imo... my son took it for some odd reason (not to meet girls, to my knowledge) and he actually learned some skills and made a couple of very easy projects on a sewing machine.
A result of him taking that class, I never had to sew another on button on his clothes for him - unless he sweet talked me into it, of course.
White trash? What about Black households who serve macaroni and cheese as a very elaborate dish? That is certainly different from something out of a box. Kraft Dinner is good and all, but it doesn't beat large elbow macaroni and a variety of tasty cheese!
Wasn't mac & cheese invented by Thomas Jefferson? He is certainly not anyone I would classify as white trash.
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I doubt he invented it. Perhaps one of his slaves made it and he liked it to the point that he served it to guests on informal occasions... say anything more than that and I'll be highly skeptical.
I did a web search and I came up with some interesting links that claim that Jefferson introduced macaroni to the United States. Jefferson was apparantly a foodie and he brought the first macaroni mold to the United States from France, which he found there when he served as ambassador to France. This information and a recipe for Jefferson's mac & cheese is at familyeducation.com0,1120,1Open ↗ 5017,00.html?relinks
Disagreement on whether or not Jefferson invented the mac & cheese dish abounds, but not that he introduced macaroni to the states. Look here for southernfood.about.comsouthernfood.about.comOpen ↗ casserolerecipes/a/macncheese.htm interesting information about mac & cheese. Evidently, this dish gained its popularity in the 1930's as a depression era dish. Another web site at enquirer.comtemOpen ↗ _taste23lede.html also has interesting information and a recipe for mac & cheese.
do you remember the recipe? Those were always fail safe... like 4H, Boy Scout, Girl Scout recipes of today are.
The recipe is remarkably like the one I in the first link in another message that I posted to this thread a minute or two ago.
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Not a bad motive, imo... my son took it for some odd reason (not to meet girls, to my knowledge) and he actually learned some skills and made a couple of very easy projects on a sewing machine.
My home economics class never included sewing, as far as I remember. I am truly deficient in the area of sewing. Even attaching a button to a shirt is a chore I cannot do properly for the life of me!
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A result of him taking that class, I never had to sew another on button on his clothes for him - unless he sweet talked me into it, of course.
