This ranks up there with premium comfort food. A great side for a New Year’s Day meal. OK, I confess. We even have this easy recipe as the main course on busy weeknights or for Sunday dinner. It’s a dressier version of the boxed kind. Homemade macaroni and cheese for the seven of us.
A highly requested family favorite!
Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese
1/2 lb elbow macaroni, cooked
non-stick cooking spray
12 oz evaporated milk
1 1/2 cups milk
2 eggs, beaten (I leave this out and it still tastes yummy!)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
4 cups shredded cheddar
Coat the crock pot with non-stick spray. Add all ingredients, saving 1 cup of cheese. Cook on low 4-5 hours. Sprinkle remaining cup of cheese over top a few minutes before serving.
Confession: It’s hard for me to remember to stop at 2 pm in the afternoon and boil macaroni noodles. I’ve found if I boil the noodles at lunch time, as I do in Make Supper at Lunch - or even the night before while making supper – it makes it so easy to toss these ingredients in the slow cooker at the right time. The point is to boil the noodles for crock pot macaroni and cheese while I am already cooking and making a mess anyway.
Anyone else confess to feeding their crew mac and cheese as a main course? What’s your variation of this favorite?
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We do on a busy family night, I add sliced hot dogs to mine and now I will use this recipe and add the hot dogs to it! Great tips and sounds yummy!
Sounds good, I add a can of tuna to my mac ‘n cheese.
I think that can of chicken would be good in it.
I would love to receive your newsletter, I’m always looking for different recipes my husband is a pastor and there are times that I’m not sure when he’s coming home to eat and having this recipe in the crock would be great along with some chicken
thank you
I’m thinking chunks of ham would be awesome in this. Even playing with different kinds of cheese and have a mixture of cheeses… I love the idea though.. anything that saves time at night so we can have more family time is awesome in my book.. Thanks for the recipe…
This is VERY close to the oven recipe I use and it is AWESOME!! Am thrilled to have it for the crockpot. I usually serve it without a meat as the cheese is the protein, but I also admit to liking it with hot dogs, ham and / or fish sticks.
Anyone have a CP recipe for tuna noodle casserole? Anothefr fave for my family.
Got to give this one a try! Sounds so simple and yummy!!
Tuna Noodle Hotdish
1 – 8 oz. box macaroni
1- 3oz. can of tuna (with oil)
1 – can of Campbell’s Vegetable Soup
Salt & pepper to taste
Boil macaroni, add tuna and soup. Bake on 350 degrees for 45-60 minutes. mmmm mmmm good
To make it a well rounded meal, I add frozen mixed veggies and chopped up ham or what ever left-over meat thats in the fridge..The kiddies love it!
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