I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
My mother has finally sat down to type up the following recipes that will surely add poundage to the average human being by simply skimming eyes over the ingredient list. If you still want to make these recipes after that then please sign your name to this form leaving me completely devoid of all responsibility from your future health detriments.
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All further correspondence can be sent to my mother via me, so leave a comment here for MochaMomma’s Momma who brings you two fabulously decadent recipes.
Fried Macaroni & Cheese
(the amounts and kinds of cheese can be adjusted to taste and availability – if you like lots of cheese use lots of cheese. The cheese also gives the dish more body so it keeps its shape when being fried and doesn’t just turn into little soft blobs)
3 cups (uncooked) elbow macaroni
2 cups grated Cheddar
1 cup Gruyere cheese
1 cup some other kind of hard block cheese
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup sour cream
4 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Cook and drain the macaroni and put it back in the pot. Add the cheeses and mix well while the macaroni is still hot. In a separate bowl, combine the remaining ingredients and add to the macaroni mixture. Pour macaroni mixture into a casserole dish and bake for 30 to 45 minutes. Top with additional cheese, if desired.
After the macaroni and cheese has cooled (I cooked it the night before and refrigerated it), cut it into pieces about 1” square (I like them hors d’oeuvres-sized). Set up a little assembly line with 3 separate dishes or bowls: 1 with flour, 1 with an egg beaten with a little water, and 1 with bread crumbs.
In a large fry pan, heat an inch or two of oil (I like a mixture of peanut and canola oils). Dredge the cubes through the flour, then the egg, then the bread crumbs and fry in the hot oil for a minute or two on each side. Drain on paper towels for minute or two until they cool enough that you don’t burn your mouth and then enjoy. In the stillness of the moment, listen to your arteries slamming shut.
Love Lard (from Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love)
1 loaf white bread (I use bakery bread - it has more body; not so mushy)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 pound of bacon
Cut the crusts off the bread and then cut each into thirds (each strip should be about the width of a slice of bacon).
Cut the bacon strips in half.
Smear soup right out of the can on each strip of bread.
Lay the piece of bread onto a half slice of bacon and roll up.
Keep going until you run out of something - it should all come out about even though.
Put all the little roll-ups on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
Share grudgingly.
The Sweet Potato Queens have a website, too.
This morning when she came over to make Sunday breakfast for my family I overheard her while she was on her cell phone.
Mom: You know those bumper stickers that say In Case Of Rapture This Car Will Be Unmanned? Well I need one that reads In Case Of Rapture Can I Have Your Car?
That’s just the kind of woman she is. Y’all have no idea.
August 26, 2007 @ 9:33 am | Filed under Recipes To Die For | Permalink |
Daisy Said,
August 26, 2007 @ 9:54 am
Mmmmmm. I may save this one for a cold day in winter when comfort food is needed. Mmmmmm.
Dave2 Said,
August 26, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
That fried macaroni and cheese looks heart-attack-inducing delicious. Seriously delicious. All I need to do is find out what Gruyere cheese is, and I’ll absolutely give these a try!
Geeky Tai-Tai Said,
August 26, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
Yummmyyy!!! A new BACON recipe — we love bacon! I will definitely give these recipes a try.
Yvonne Said,
August 26, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL WORTHY!!!!!
Much love to your Mum for posting a recipe that I don’t need to convert! I adore mac n cheese but only if made by me. That stuff they put in a box and call mac n cheese is so gross that even my kids walk away in disgust!
I made spaghetti bolognaise for dinner, and now this is all I can think about. Sigh. I must come up with an excuse for a party so I can make these, cancel at last minute and eat them all myself
See, now look what kinda greedy wench you pair turned me into?
Much Love
Yvonne
Lovebabz Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 6:51 am
YIKES! I have a rare fatal allergy to milk proteins, cheeses, casien so I couldn’t eat this if I wanted to. And I can feel myself falling into a coma as I look at the pictures trying to figure out if I can make this with cheese alternatives. Hhhm if I switch out pork bacon for turkey bacon and use dairy-free cream of mushroom. Look I am trying to make these recipes work in my universe! I can’t pass this up! Tell your mama to keep ‘em coming.
Heather B. Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 7:03 am
My ass is about to get HUGE.
Also, how much bread crumbs am I to use?
Kim Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 10:06 am
I will have to try these out, especially the fried mac’n cheese. Yummy!!!
KC Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Since I recently got out of the hospital for a gall bladder infection… I best not try the fried MacnChesse wonders!!! I am totally salivating but my pulsating gall bladder has decided it best I don’t go near such things!!!
Damn!!!
Hope this finds you well….
Oh, The Joys Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
Forgive me if I don’t read too closely today. Your blog is conjuring The Lady Flabina and I try to keep her down!
Bree Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
thank you thank you thank you mochamomma’s momma…fried mac & cheese with go perfect with bbq pork butt sandwiches on labor day!
Janice Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Oh my God
Oh my God
Oh my God
Oh my God
Oh my everlovin God.
Thank you Kelly’s momma!
RWA Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
I can’t cook, but I will be sharing those recipes with someone who will (hopefully) prepare some of those incredibly delicious-looking morsels for me!!!!
Amy Said,
August 27, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
You know, I’ve quietly admired your blog for a good long while… but now that you’ve gone ahead and referenced the Sweet Potato Queens, I have to publicly swear my allegiance to you. And your Momma, too.
Have you tried the Pig Candy recipe? OH, MY WORD at the bacony goodness.
wifey615 Said,
August 28, 2007 @ 11:42 am
yeah, that mac-n-cheese fried thing you write about…is the bomb! followed recipe to the letter and let me tell you, i am GLAD no one was home when they came out of the pan!!
Thanks Momma!