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Not-So-Simple Mac & Cheese - Feast Your Eyes

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Mac & cheese with duck and bourbon. Photo: Beer & Nosh.
This picture of macaroni and cheese with croutons, from the San Francisco-based blog Beer & Nosh, looks delicious. A simple statement, sure. But macaroni and cheese is simple food. And there's really no denying the goodness of such a perfect combination of starch and fat -- especially with some extra (and crunchy!) starch thrown on top. But what if we told you that this particular macaroni was "swimming in duck fat?"

According to the blog's author Jesse, one of America's most beloved comfort foods was made even more comforting -- and, admittedly, heart-attack inducing -- with duck fat croutons, duck fat roux and even duck skin cracklings (you guessed it!) fried in duck fat.

While we feel a little sorry for the poor duck, we have to thank him for giving this macaroni and cheese his all, literally. Oh, there's also supposedly some bourbon in there, but at this point, who really cares?

[Via Beer & Nosh]

Filed Under: Feast Your Eyes, Ingredients
Tags: bourbon, cheese, comfort food, cracklings, duck, duck fat, DuckFat, mac and cheese, MacAndCheese, macaroni and cheese, MacaroniAndCheese, west coast

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Pye

9-01-2009 @11:35AM Pye said... I have been noticing a trend towards gourmet versions of Mac'n'cheese at upscale places. It's amazing what can be done to a simple comfort food to make it so scrumptious. And I'm sure that the low food cost, even for gourmet recipes makes it highly profitable for restaurateurs. I'm particularly fond of the Mac'n'Cheese at a place we have here in Berkeley, CA called the T-Rex.
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