Pasta and cheese, very Italian!

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Reb, for some mysterious reason, it is common some varietiesof cheddar cheese to be colored to almost orang here--usuallywith anatto dye (food-based), but I buy the white cheddar.Besides, one can grate cheese over any pasta, or make a cheese sauce for any kind of pasta. I am half Italian; it comesout in my cooking; my maternal grandmother taught me well!Good luck with all this,Love to you and to ,nFrom: Reb D

To: MSersLife Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 9:01:11 AMSubject: Re: Mac-n-cheese recipe - sorta (was-RE: mac n cheese recipe please

Here's two cents from a REAL mac-n-ceese amateur...I have never had homemade mc-n-cheese, but have had the kind of mac-n-cheese you can buy (from the foreign food shelf, in some stores) ready made, a few times. The ready-made one was perfectly fine, as far as ready made meals go. Will never forget the first time we bought/made it though. We had never even seen it before, and that strong orange color was really not part of what we had expected. We weren't quite sure it was supposed to look like that, or if some employe in the factory had accidentally dropped a bucket of paint in that batch... But I understand the color has to do with the choice of cheese. And it was OK. I have read a recipe for a homemade one though, that I'll like to try some time. It has cheddar, some other cheese I can't remember the name of and probably won't find (I am guessing it's the orange one...), and gorgonzola. I think the gorgonzola will really make it interesting. The gorgonzola could most likely be replaced with feta (I love feta cheese too!). So, yes, I think you can vary the flavor of most cheesy food a lot by using different kinds of cheese. love/Reb