About a week ago, we had my little brother and my dad over. It was my brother's birthday, and we had a nice bacon cheese burger dinner with homemade potato chips and pumpkin cheese cake. But, my dad brought me a gift. When I was in college, he would always send me care packages from home, and one of his favorite things to include? Havarti cheese. He knew it was one of my favorites. So that was my gift, a big package of cheese!
A few days later, my husband was rummaging around the cupboards trying to find something to eat. I offered to make him baked mac'n'cheese, to which he agreed. And I decided to make it with my havarti cheese, well, some of it.
I made a quick roue base with milk, butter and flour, browned some chopped onion, then added ripped up havarti cheese, mozerella, a little bit of Mexican blend, and then some cream cheese. I always add onion powder, garlic powder and pepper as well.
I poured that over the cooked macaroni noodles before putting it in a greased pan. For the topping, I used crushed up oyster crackers, because they aren't as sweet or salty as ritz. And! The best part, bacon. I put bits of fresh cooked bacon all over the top. Baked that for about 20 minutes, and let me tell you, it smelled great!
Nick said it was the best mac'n'cheese I have made yet. I'm telling you, its the Havarti!
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