Macaroni and cheese. It's a popular comfort food with people throughout the world, and my family is no exception. However, when it comes to making it, ours is a house divided. I like it homemade, with a thick layer of crunchy breadcrumbs topping pasta that is coated in a sauce made with the best sharp cheddar I can get. Wife finds this type of macaroni dry, dull and lifeless. If you ask her, macaroni and cheese is best when it comes from a box, the only cheese to be found in the form of a radioactive orange powder that has to be resuscitated with milk and butter before you can eat it. (I imagine my description does a good job of conveying where I stand on the stuff.) For awhile we tried to find a recipe she liked--she wants to enjoy real mac and cheese, anyway--but to no avail. Everything from Alton Brown's "Good Eats" version to our friend's fabulous family recipe was met with reactions ranging from "ick" to "meh."
