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It’s macaroni cheese time! I haven’t posted a macaroni cheese recipe in forever, and since it’s my joint favourite food in the world (joint with pizza, obviously), I thought I should remedy that situation swiftish.
Before you start thinking that this is just any old macaroni cheese recipe, let me remind you of the title of this post (which you probably read all of seven seconds ago, keep up) – it’s got brown butter leeks. Butter, cooked until it goes all lovely and caramelised, with lovely soft and oniony sautéed leeks! Just this one simple addition takes the macaroni cheese from ‘yum’ to ‘hellooo there’.
Rather than making a roux-based macaroni cheese, this time I went for the super lazy method, and just stirred some grated…
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