609. Edam
I bought this cookbook in Greece of traditional Greek recipes, and when I was browsing through it the other week I found a recipe for a mac and cheese pie. Yes. You heard that right. Mac and cheese PIE. And on top of that it also included sausage. Mac and cheese + pastry + sausage. Of course I immediately thought that this sounded like the single best idea I’d ever heard and rushed to the store to buy the ingredients to make it for dinner.
To make a bit of a change from cheddar, I chose edam as the cheese. I thought that with the sausage and pastry, choosing a slightly milder, lighter cheese would probably be advisable. Edam still has enough of a cheesy flavour to make it good for a mac and cheese though.
Basically, to make the pie, you make a homemade cheese sauce and boil the pasta like you normally would for a mac and cheese. At the same time, grill the sausages. Slice them up when you’re done and mix the macaroni, cheese sauce and sausage together. Pile it all into an oven dish, cover the top with storebought puff pastry (get the all-butter stuff if you can find it, it’s so much better) and bake for like 20 minutes. Voila, awesomest dinner ever. As you can see I served mine with some green salad to try and pretend that it was the unhealthiest meal ever. But frankly when something tastes this good, who cares.
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