Barefoot Bloggers: Grown Up Mac & Cheese

I know...I've been MIA from Barefoot Bloggers...it's a good thing Tara is such a nice person, or she'd have kicked me out on my ear by now, and I would have deserved it!....what can I say, life totally got in the way, but now, NOW that I'm unemployed and everything (thanks US Auto Industry), I certainly have no good excuse for not getting my cooking done!

I am SO glad to be coming back to this one...I mean yum. I've had my issues with mac and cheese, and I've always gone back to our old family favorite which doesn't utilize a cheese sauce. That's where I've always gone wrong....the sauce. It always ended up grainy! I could never figure it out....until I did figure out that I was getting the bechamel sauce too hot...you need to take it off the heat before you add the cheese. GENIUS!

This one came out perfect, and I dare say so delicious that I hope there is some left for Ugg. There was so many things to love about this recipe....for starters it doesn't make a VAT of mac and cheese. Second, it's not the blue box (oh, blue box, don't go away! I still love you!), after all there is a time and place for the blue box. Third.....well...there's BACON...how can you go wrong with bacon!?! Lastly -- it's just delicious....seriously, you should try it out...

So, a big thanks to Heather at Randomosity and the Girl for this one...this is going in the rotation definitely!

You can check out the recipe here, and be sure to check out Barefoot Bloggers to see how everyone else did!

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