| Boxed macaroni and cheese might be a food of desperation or reverence, depending on your perspective. It's powered many through a night when they had no energy for cooking, but it's also a food that brings immense comfort when little else will. Indeed, boxed macaroni and cheese rings of days when pennies were tight, but it hits a spot in mind and body that little else, save perhaps cheap pizza, does. While the beauty of boxed mac and cheese is in how simple it is—cook pasta, add butter and milk, sprinkle with cheese powder, stir—there's one thing you can do to actually upgrade boxed macaroni into a side dish that's seriously easy but immensely flavorful. Read more... |
