The Pantry Dish

I have yet to meet a kid that doesn't like Macaroni & Cheese.  We usually have the boxed stuff in our pantry, but to be honest something about using powedered cheese just never seemed right to me.  Is that weird?  It's especially weird and odd to me when there is perfectly good cheese in the fridge.  I mean c'mon!  Doesn't make sense!  Macaroni & Cheese can't be that hard.........can it??  Just because I don't have the boxed Macaroni & Cheese doesn't mean we can't make it! So I scrambled around my fridge and took out some cheeses, milk, and butter.  Looked through the spice cabinet and took out the cornstarch and salt and set out to make homemade Macaroni.  Psh, I can do this I thought. 

Well, after about 4 or 5 attempts (on different occasions) I finally got it. Believe it or not it really is simple if you're not looking for something fancy shmancy.  And let's face it, the boxed stuff, well.........there really is nothing fancy about it, so I want to introduce you to my version.  The easiest (and much yummier) version I have seen next to Macaroni in a box.

I realize this picture is a bit different and probably not the best choice, but for some bizzare reason, I like it.  In some wierd way this particular dish looked more delicious to me in this lighting than in any of the other pictures that I took.  Not sure if it will have the same impact on anyone who sees it though.  Hopefully it won't scare people away because this one is really worth trying out.  The meatballs were full of flavor and not made with ground beef so it's somewhat of a leaner pasta & meatball dish than the usual. 

Hope you like it :)