(I’ve decided to participate in this week’s Mama Kat’s Weekly Challenge. The prompt I chose, was “Share a Thanksgiving recipe you will be cooking up this week.”)

Happy early Thanksgiving, everyone! I’m about to log off, and start cooking, so I thought I’d post my mom’s macaroni & cheese recipe. As we’ve gotten older, my cousins and I have been assigned various side dishes, to cook, for the holidays. My assignment is the mac & cheese.

(I’m cooking for two houses, so there are twice the ingredients.)

I normally use a 9 x 13 pan.

Ingredients:

• 1-16 oz box of elbow macaroni
• 1 stick of butter
• 3 cups of milk
• 2 cups of Velveeta
• 1 ½ cups of shredded cheddar or Colby jack cheese (I use ¾ cup of each)
• 1 egg (beaten)
• Seasoned salt
• Pepper
• Onion salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Boil noodles
3. Heat butter& milk in a pot
4. Add Velveeta & 1 cup shredded cheese
5. Let mixture melt
6. Stir in (beaten) egg
7. Add seasoned salt, pepper & onion salt to taste
8. Stir mixture
9. Pour enough mixture to coat bottom of pan*
10. Put in ½ the noodles
11. Add in more sauce & ½ of the left over shredded cheese*
12. Add in the remaining noodles, sauce & shredded cheese*
13. Bake, uncovered, for 35 – 40 minutes, at 350 – 375 degrees

 *Make sure mixture is all distributed evenly.

So, there you have it. If I remember, I’ll edit this post, to include a picture, of the final product.

Hope you all have an awesome Turkey Day, filled with laughs & love.