In just those two hours, you’ll have one of the best sides – or main dishes – your family has ever had. Let it go for an hour, stir and then it cook for another hour. Place the lid onto the crock pot and turn it on low. Pour in the evaporated milk, milk and then the rest of the ingredients. The butter and olive oil make sure that your noodles won’t be sticking together. (Since the macaroni has just been drained, it’s piping hot. Mix the butter and olive oil into the macaroni until it’s melted. It’s definitely worth it for a meal like this. As you can see I used a slow cooker liner. Drain it and then put it into your crockpot along with the butter and olive oil. You can find them here.Ĭook the macaroni to the box directions.
This is all you need to make this amazing meal – or side. It is similar to macaroni and cheese, but it includes small shell pasta instead of macaroni and creamy Velveeta cheese sauce instead. I love recipes like this because I know Macaroni and Cheese is a big hit with kids, yet this recipe is so good the adults will be asking for more! Original Velveeta Shells & Cheese is a product from Kraft Foods. And it’s also the easiest thing ever to make for a potluck. Of course the recipe was shared and this past Sunday I made it again for our church picnic. She decided to make it for my dad when he visited her and bam!… He was hooked. My grandma cut out this easy Macaroni and Cheese in the crockpot recipe from the newspaper years ago. Just throw everything in the crock pot and in a few hours you have the best easy mac and cheese ever! After almost 50 years with mom, and decades prior to that with her own mom, after literally hundreds of friends and family have enjoyed the results, this popular and highly-searched‐for recipe is finally written down.A creamy crock pot mac and cheese recipe made with Velveeta. Mom learned it from her own mom back in the late 1950s, and the recipe hasn’t changed.Ĭamera in‐hand, that Sunday I followed her every step, bugging the bejeepers out of her with my constant requests of, “Hold still, mom, you’re making it blur again.” (As Jimmy Neutron once said, “Sorry about your bejeepers, mom!”) That afternoon is where the photos in this recipe came from. The whole family loves it, as do friends. There are recipes she never wrote down, simply because she hit the wall of, “Oh, I never measure anything.” On May 27, 2007, she decided to make her well‐known Velveeta-based macaroni & cheese, something I like with plenty of Heinz ketchup on it. Unfortunately, no one told her about the floppy disk drive so she could save her work, but I do have everything sheʹd printed in a three‐ring binder.
You can get Drummond's full macaroni and cheese recipe here, and watch her whip up her cheesy masterpiece below. Our mom, who passed away on April 21, 2009, at the age of 79, had taken the time once to use a Brother word processor (a glorified typewriter with an LCD screen) to type up a lot of her recipes. Apart from the dry mustard, Drummond's recipe uses basic ingredients like dried macaroni and sharp cheddar cheese, along with a handful of other ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.