The macaroni cheese thread
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Frank Merton
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Oh yea. Eat it off the cob after loading it with olive or coconut oil and salt and pepper. Get your hands and your face and your shirtsleeve just dripping greasy. It's sooo good that way.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
why do you people insist on calling it sweetcorn? I feel a rant coming onIt's just corn. Thanks, mgmt.
Another pointless derail on this thread. This thread is about macaroni cheese.
Frank Merton
Active Member
I thought it was about good food.
I was taught that the thing you guys are calling "sweet corn" is maize. Corn is what the Americans call wheat. Somebody please clarify this.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
fractionMan
Custom Title
I've been using the half-price m&s cornish cruncher cheese sauce for this (84p a jar). It's bloody fantastic!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's sweetcorn. Don't let an uppity colonial tell you what to say!
fractionMan
Custom Title
I used asparagus and spring onion 
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Corn is usually what those weird non-potato crisps are made out - space raiders and skips and that sort of thing
And corn syrup is what you use to make a low budget horror film.
But if it's the little nubbins of yellow fruit that you get on cobs, it's sweetcorn
And corn syrup is what you use to make a low budget horror film.
But if it's the little nubbins of yellow fruit that you get on cobs, it's sweetcorn
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
"This festival founded by British settlers confounds the rest of southern Illinois."
Looks like sweetcorn's used a lot in corn country, maybe not so much elsewhere.
I figured out what it is...I am still right that nobody says it, but when things are labelled, it is sometimes labeled as "sweet corn"
also we have all kinds of other things made from corn that we never put "sweet" in front of:
corn chowder
corn pudding
corn bread
etc.
if it's in a can we say 'canned corn', on the cob is 'corn on the cob'.
Frank Merton
Active Member
No the impression is that what American's call "wheat" the British call "corn" and what the Americans call "corn" the British call "maize."how did you live here and leave with the impression that we call wheat corn?
Frank Merton
Active Member
By the way, the yellow colored corn (as opposed to a more whitish corn that is common here) is called "bop mi" ("American corn" -- literally "beautiful land corn
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.Frank Merton
Active Member
Obviously I'm misinformed.We dont call anything maize.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Well, up to a point. We talk of fields of wheat, cornfields, ears of corn. If we talk of maize we tend to say sweetcorn.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
If I was referring to a field of the stuff I'd say maize. The language for producing is different to the language of consuming eg cattle, beef, pigs, pork.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
...anyway, macaroni cheese....my mum did it with bits of bacon and peas with a layer of sliced tomatoes on top, plus grated cheddar on top of the tomatoes. Comfort food at its best.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I saw a recipe yesterday for macaroni cheese with a can of tomato soup
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
yeah i saw that recipe in the Guardian. Sounded vile.
moose
like some cat from Japan
Niblets
actually very nice. The cauliflower wasn't necessary, predictably.in the interests of research (and 'cause it was in the tramps buffet) i picked up a waitrose / heston blumenthal cauliflower & macaroni cheese with truffle (flavour
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I saw a recipe yesterday for macaroni cheese with a can of tomato soup
Just had a look - sounds horrible, and an insult to macaroni cheese, but so easy I might try it one day just to check:
We love to eat: Nana's macaroni cheese
Ingredients
1 onion, chopped fairly small
350g macaroni
1 tin condensed tomato soup
100g, plus 50g grated cheese
1 tsp English mustard
1 large tomato, sliced
Cook the macaroni in plenty of boiling, salted water, following the packet instructions. Add the onion for the last couple of minutes. Drain and tip back into the saucepan and stir in the soup, 100g of the cheese and the mustard.Transfer to a shallow baking dish, top with the remaining cheese and the tomato slices. Bake at 180C (160C) for around 40 minutes.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
They had them in the Valentines Day meal deal the week before, but I avoided it in case it got me annoyed during a Valentines Day meal
I'll have to try one now.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
what's chemical about pasta / cheese / milk / butter / flour?I used to eat this shit. Lots of it. But I've reached the critical mass point in my life for the consumption of gelatinous, chemical-laced food substitutes.
In Canada it tends to be more ready made I think. Kraft macaroni cheese?
I made three cheese (parmesan, cream cheese and mature cheddar) and kale pasta bake the other day. It was so good I ate 2 days helping in one
