food porn with a one dish baked mac n cheese recipe....

This was our meal tonight. smoked pork chops, its one of my favorites so excuse the bite that has already been pinched from it. I just couldn't control myself.

But anyway... smoked pork chops, butter peas with whole okra and country ham, fried squash, zucchini and onions, and one dish baked mac n cheese.

Here are a couple more pics for all you food porn lovers out there, and then I will tell you how to make the one pot baked mac n cheese.

Beans and okra... OMG!!! It's like heaven in a pot...

cast iron babay.. Its the only way to cook isn't it?

Sorry that I didn't get a pic of just the mac n cheese, but by this time the grandbaby was here wanting to help me cook and I was starving too.. so this pic will have to do..

Now for the recipe...

Its really simple..

I think you will like it...

one dish baked mac n cheese

1 box elbow macaroni

1 jar ragu cheese sauce (the orange kind)

1 cup chicken broth

1 empty ragu sauce jar full of water

(i use the empty cheese sauce jar to measure the water because i can re-lid it and shake it up and get the remaining cheese sauce that was stuck inside the jar)

1/3 cup milk powder

(you can substitute the milk powder for real milk if you like, but i was out of milk and this works just as good in recipes)

1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar

1 stick butter cubed

salt and pepper to taste

in a grease oven safe dish pour in all of your ingredients except the butter and shredded cheese and stir to coat and spread evenly in dish.

add your butter cubes and space them evenly throughout the dish

then top with about half of your shredded cheddar.

cover and bake at 375 for approx. 30 minutes

after 30 minutes remove from oven, uncover and stir add the remaining cheddar to the top and put back into the oven uncovered for approx 25 more minutes or until liquid had reduced and top had browned..

and that is it.. The family loved it.. and for those who cant have, or don't like eggs there isn't a single one in this except what is in the elbow macaroni.... If there is any in it at all.. Perhaps I should be ashamed to say I have never read the ingredients in elbow pasta... Ill have to do that now.. It will drive me nuts if I don't...

You can also add ham, or bacon, or hot dogs, maybe even cooked ground beef or sausage to this recipe

If you try it let me know what you think...