Macaroni & Cheese

I love pasta, I truly do, I could most probably eat it every night for dinner...There are so many ways to cook it.  So here is another nice & easy recipe, very quick to make and once you pop it into the oven you can sit back and relax.  My family loves this one, and what's nice about it is if you don't have certain ingredients then you can leave them out. 

Food is all about flavour and enjoyment, making food always puts me in a good mood, and i try not to cook if i don't feel like it...Food should be a pleasure...so enjoy it.

So what do you need:

Macaroni

(I used a bit of a bigger macaroni, but also if you don't have use and other pasta except for spaghetti.)

Onion (chopped)

Oil

3 Eggs

500ml milk

250ml cheese (but if you don't have that much throw in what you have, the more cheese the yummier)

5ml mustard powder

Salt

herbs

1/ 2 Tomatoes

Extras:

Bacon or Ham

1.  Firstly you start by chopping up your onion and then drizzle your pan with some oil, now saute (meaning to cook food in a little bit of oil) onion until golden brown.

2.  Cook your pasta in boiling water, add some oil, this is so that the pasta doesn't stick together.

3.  While the pasta is cooking away, then we can continue with the onion, now add some bacon or ham bits, and cook until nice and brown. I don't really add any flavouring here, but salt and pepper is always nice.

4.  Now let's start on the sauce....Mix you eggs, milk, mustard powder, cheese and spice together.  Mix it very well.  In the picture below you will notice i used two eggs, that is because my eggs actually counts as four eggs, they have two egg yolks in.  You might need some more sauce, it all depends on how much you are cooking, so just keep adding 1 egg and 250ml milk for every time you increase.

5. When your pasta is ready strain the water away.  Now take your glass counter (oven proof) and now only fill it halve way as to make a layer of pasta. 

6.  Now add your bacon, I sometimes mix the bacon and the pasta together, so that there is a nice consistency of pasta and meat.  I also sometime mix in more cheese, I love cheese.  But in this case i made a layer pasta and then a layer bacon, then make a layer tomato slices and sprinkle some cheese.

7.  Now cover it with the rest of the pasta, and then place a couple of tomato slices on top, now pour over your sauce, yes your container might be to small as you can see mine was, but try to get in all the sauce.  Then you can put it into the oven at 180C for about 30 to 40 minutes, keep looking into it every 15 minutes, until all the egg mixture as become solid.

When it's ready take it out and you can serve it with a green salad or some spicy beetroot...this can be a very filling meal but also nice and light for the summer.

Enjoy