Macaroni and Cheese with White Sauce is an old-school casserole-style macaroni and cheese, easy enough for a busy weeknight. The recipe is adapted from The Black Family Reunion Cookbook, compiled by the National Council of Negro Women. Despite its Simon and Schuster imprint and classy hardbound printing, The Black Family Reunion Cookbook has the same……
Ingredient: elbow macaroni
Soup Bagdad (adapted from Smart Shopper’s Cookbook, 1972)
Soup Bagdad is a warm and rich lentil-and-lamb soup punched up with a heavy hand of fresh herbs. Despite the long simmer time this is still a tractable weeknight meal, and requires very little chopping or active time. It’s also plenty hearty for a weekend meal. This recipe comes to me by way of Smart……
Pizza Casserole (Ohio, 1995, adapted)
I’m at a loss to try and wax rhapsodic about this Pizza Casserole recipe. It’s not particularly novel or ingenious and it is frankly only as good as the ingredients you put into it, but it sure scratches the itch for pizza on a busy weeknight. I’ve never had good luck trying to make……
Macaroni, Peanuts, and Cheese (adapted from the Black Family Reunion Cookbook, 1991)
Macaroni, Peanuts, and Cheese is a one of the more unique recipes in The Black Family Reunion Cookbook, a contribution from Ms. Hazel Isaiah-Ransom. She tells a story of growing up in small-town Oklahoma with a 10 (!) siblings and a mother who could never make enough macaroni and cheese to feed the crew. Young……