Over the last few months Mac and Cheese has been the #1 internal blog search here on The Hunger Struck. It’s funny because I remember back in September when I first started this blog thinking about how much I was looking forward to writing about my favorite Mac and Cheese recipes. I’m particularly fond of my history with this classic American comfort food, so this was the perfect excuse to make one of my absolutely favorite things.
Several years ago when I still lived in San Francisco, along with a few friends, I was a Macaroni and Cheese connoisseur. We would go to the cheese section of Rainbow and spend a ridiculous amount of time figuring out what cheese combination to try out in our next experiment. Naturally some of these Mac and Cheese adventures were more refined than others, some were pure and simple while others seemed more like an experiment in excess and were as dirty as Mac and Cheese can get.
We were cheese obsessed and quickly mastered the art of the weekend brunch cheese plate, often followed by the weekend dinner grilled cheese, which would generally include niman ranch bacon and be washed down with cold glasses of makers mark. We were the very definition of hedonism, our behavior driven by our mutual love of cheese. That was the life, although I have reformed my behavior a bit since then, my devotion to cheese is stronger than ever and mac and cheese is definitely one of my most favorite ways to showcase it.
