The first pic shows the magazine version - beautiful and delicious to say the least.
This pic shows our version, it's a little darker because we made our breadcrumb topping from whole wheat bread rather than white - doesn't that make a somewhat high calorie/high fat dish just that tiny bit more nutritious!!!!? Everything else is the basically the same - mini penne pasta being a little more elegant than macaroni - and juicy sliced tomatoes from the garden rather than those rather chewy little cherry tomatoes suggested in the recipe.
Yum - here we enjoyed our mac & cheese along with a mixed green salad - I really do think that even the Queen would have enjoyed this lunch in our gazebo!
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Oh does that look delicious! We love Mac n Cheese about the same as chocolate cake! It is such a treat to make the "real" kind isn't it? Yummy
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a great trip! Nice to see you back home. Love that shot of the gazebo!
Donna
Hmmm, that looks lucious!...the ULTIMATE comfort food!
ReplyDeleteYour gazebo is beautiful - such a relaxing looking spot!
oh, my yes! That looks delicious...really. I think the gazebo in your lush garden looks quite fetching, too, Mary!
ReplyDeleteLidy
We love mac and cheese here, your version looks DELISH! And that gazebo is lovely. Thanks for visiting my blog! Oh, and I noticed you're from NC, I have family in North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteI regret to say that I don't like macaroni cheese:( Don't know quite why since I like both pasta and cheese - I think it's because I first came across it when I was a child as a tin of Heinz Macaroni Cheese which looked and tasted disgusting and that's put me off it ever since. Yours does look good though and it's certainly a lovely setting in which to eat it.
ReplyDeleteYummm. Looks wonderful, and I actually think I got a whiff of that yummy aroma! Having lunch in that darling gazebo sounds heavenly.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much for stopping by. And for all of your encouragement also. I've already contacted your friend. Thank you so much. Your Mac looks great!! I love mine with tomatoes too!!!
New friends,
Karen
If I'm every in North Carolina and just happen to be in your neighborhood, I hope you will serve me some of your macaroni and cheese under the gazebo. Sounds like a great thing to do.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is a pasta addict, so I better not let her see this post or she'll be expecting it for dinner!
ReplyDeleteIt does look delicious though.
Your mac & cheese looks delicious. How perfect to enjoy it from your wonderful Emma Bridgewater china in your garden gazebo. Sound ideal to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely gazebo!! Thanks so much for visiting my blog & the kind comments. Can't wait to get to know you better, on my way to read more about you right now!
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Mary the mac and cheese looks delightful! Love the china...of course this "dish person" zeroed in on those right away! The gazebo photo is definitely magazine worthy!
ReplyDeletePat
I was already hungry when I sat down at the computer but seeing your picture has me just famished! Sadly, there is nothing even close to that yummy for me to eat around here. I love the picture of where you enjoyed your lunch. I imagine everything tastes better there.
ReplyDeleteI'm the only one in my family that loves mac n cheese with tomatoes. Your looks just yummy with that crunchy topping. Your gazebo would be a perfect place to have a little nosh!
ReplyDeleteManuela
Mary, your mac and cheese looks really, really amazing. I MUST make it!! Thank you so much.
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Very yummy! I was looking for a recipe and I guess I'll just have to stare at this scrumptious photo! I have a recipe that uses both cheddar and Gruyere. I have never tried tomatoes on top, but I know I would love it! So would my 20 year old daughter!
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P.S. I fell in love with gazebos many years ago when I saw the movie "The Gazebo." It starred Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner, and Martin Landau. It came out in 1959 and I was pretty young when I first saw it. It was a dark comedy where a TV writer buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo of his suburban backyard. I laugh now because all I could see as a young girl was that fabulous gazebo. I totally missed what was hiding underneath until I saw it again much later. I even wrote a song on the piano about it-- my only composition to this date...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, your gazebo is grand! I love it!
kj