Momma's Baked Macaroni together with Cheese is the easiest to brand together with absolute best mac together with cheese recipe ever!  Don't forget the stewed tomatoes!

This is my favorite meal.  Like favorite favorite.

One of the particular things that my Mom did for me together with my iii sisters every yr on our birthday was to develop the repast of our selection for dinner, together with every yr without fail, baked macaroni together with cheese was my request.

No boxed materials for this girl.  Mom makes it similar no 1 else I know.  Sharp white cheddar layered betwixt elbow macaroni that's baked for just an hour.  The overstep bakes to golden perfection amongst footling pieces of crunchy pasta (the crunchies!) peeking through the hot, bubbly cheese.

Last fourth dimension I checked, you lot don't larn crunchies amongst the box stuff.

What actually sets this macaroni together with cheese apart from the balance is the stewed tomatoes.

You absolutely positively can't convey Momma's baked macaroni together with cheese without stewed tomatoes!

The bulk of people that I've come upwards across haven't idea of tomatoes every bit an accompaniment to their mac together with cheese.

I know it may audio a footling odd, but I assure you, it is the only agency to go.  They are similar the yin to the macaroni yang.  At to the lowest degree for this recipe!  So, don't skip 'em, fifty-fifty if you're skeptical.

I've enjoyed many a mac together with cheese inward my 33 years together with Momma's is, together with volition ever endure the best.  I promise you lot dear it every bit much every bit nosotros do!

So easy, no roux, no block of processed cheese.  Just a few quick layers together with you're done.  LOVE!

Momma's Baked Macaroni & Cheese

Momma's Baked Macaroni together with Cheese is the easiest to brand together with absolute best mac together with cheese ever!  Don't forget the stewed tomatoes!

prep time: 10 MINcook time: 1 HOURtotal time: 1 HOUR 10 MIN

INGREDIENTS

• 16 oz elbow macaroni, cooked al dente together with drained
• 1 1/4 lb sudden white cheddar cheese, sliced
• 5 tsp butter
• 3 cups milk
• 15 oz tin dismiss stewed tomatoes, roughly chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Grease a ix x xiii baking pan amongst butter.  Layer ingredients inward the next order:  one-half of the macaroni, one-half of the cheese, the remaining macaroni, followed past times the remaining cheese.  (Sometimes I'll spread it out fifty-fifty to a greater extent than together with exercise the layers of macaroni a footling thinner together with I terminate upwards amongst somewhere some 1 or ii to a greater extent than layers.  As long every bit you lot terminate upwards amongst cheese on the top, you're good.)
3. Top amongst sliced butter.
4. Pour milk over layers until the milk fills the dish almost ¾ of the agency total or until you just see the milk coming through the macaroni when you're looking at it from the top, almost 3 cups.
5. Bake uncovered inward preheated oven for 1 hr or until the overstep is golden together with bubbly.  Let sit down 10 minutes earlier serving.  Serve amongst warmed stewed tomatoes.