What did you cook today?

[Certificate of Excellence]

Today’s culinary adventure visits a childhood favorite of mine “chili Mac”. We’ll eat this first half of this week but got the “chili” component done - always tastes better a day or two later, hence the wait.

This will go over a homemade Mac n cheese (I usually do a cheddar and Gouda mornay for the Mac n cheese) and then baked for about 30 minutes or so until everything is bubbly and delicious. Feel free to ignore my wife's goofey Xmas gingerbread spat. All of my red handled high-heat spats were in the dishwasher lol.

 

[Kai Robinson]

You just reminded me of something my brother makes. Chili, but topped with mashed potato and cheese. Mexican cottage pie, basically.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

That’s awesome. I love it This weeks meal plan includes sloppy Joes but through the same mash-up lense as your brother. I use Mexican pork chorizo and ground beef and build a red chile adobo sauce around all of it & call it

Sloppy Jose’s

They get built on toasted burger buns and I top mine with pickled onions, shredded cabbage and actual pickle chips but the kiddos all do cheddar cheese.

Anyhow, it’s an easy weeknight meal. I am totally stealing your brothers idea. Maybe I’ll do something like frito pie filling and top it with a cheddar jalapeño mash and broiled the top a bit .. yanno make it pretty lol I could absolutely get down on some of that.