{"id":411,"date":"2009-11-20T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:58:48","slug":"easiest-ever-homemade-macaroni-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/easiest-ever-homemade-macaroni-and-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Easiest Ever Homemade Macaroni and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"method-ingredients-container\">\n<div class=\"method\">\n<p>An easy, cheesy recipe that is good for all ages. Macaroni and cheese is the definition of home cooking. The best part is, it&#8217;s also pretty easy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Directions:<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"yield\">Yield: 4-6 servings<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add pasta to boiling water in large saucepan or dutch oven with a pinch of salt and a few drops of oil (Olive or Vegetable).<\/li>\n<li>Cook over medium heat uncovered for about 8 &#8211; 10 minutes, until tender. Stir occasionally to prevent the pasta from sticking to itself.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from heat. Drain. Don&#8217;t rinse, if using right away.<\/li>\n<li>Spoon pasta into greased casserole dish making alternate layers with the cheese (Sliced or Grated). Sprinkle salt, pepper and parsley over each cheese layer.<\/li>\n<li>Pour milk over last layer, dot with butter.<\/li>\n<li>Bake in 350&deg;F oven for approx 45 minutes to one hour, until golden and bubbly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ingredients\">\n<h2>Ingredients:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ingredients-list\">\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">3 cups of Uncooked Elbow Macaroni (May substitute for other small shaped pasta)<\/li>\n<li>350 to 500 grams of Extra Old Cheddar Cheese (may substitute for Medium, Mild or Marble)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">2 cups of Milk<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsps of Butter or Margarine<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredients-list-alt\">Salt, Pepper &#038; Chopped Parsley, to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-video\">\n<div class=\"video\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-border\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EVzZ45RaX8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy, cheesy recipe that is good for all ages. Macaroni and cheese is the definition of home cooking. The best part is, it&#8217;s also pretty easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,20],"tags":[97,27,95,9,96,98,562],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinners","category-recipes","category-video","tag-cheese","tag-directions","tag-easy","tag-ingredients","tag-macaroni","tag-noodles","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookingwithcandra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}