Pimento Macaroni and Cheese

We are ready, Teddy

Little bit more salt. Yum. We're so glad to have our family with us today and our friends

We are so excited to be making this dish, Jamie. It's one of Paula's keepers

Are they all? There's a thousand and one ways to make macaroni and cheese, y'all

A thousand and one. Well, this is pimento mac and cheese. All right, son, if you dice that up

I'm gonna let this stick of butter just kind of fall into that pan. Uh-oh

Uh-oh. Kind of like that. I'm gonna add about a half a cup of flour

and we're gonna make a paste, y'all. Ooh. Perfect. And you can throw those onions in

Onions. Onions. Onions. Onions. Okay, Jamie, you might want to take this little thing so you won't have any lumps in it

We've got cheddar cheese here. We've got jack cheese. We've got pimentas

We've got smoked paprika that I'm going to put in there and give it kind of a smoky taste

And cream cheese is so good. Oh, yeah. And macaroni and cheese, y'all

All right, son, if you would take this now. I gonna add four cups of whole milk y Kinda slow I gonna give Jamie a chance to get that incorporated All right now I going to add eight ounces of cream cheese

that's been softened. And son, you can just take your little thing

and just kind of break up that cream cheese. Is this four cups in here

It's four cups. A quart is four cups. Has been since I was in grammar school

That's one thing that hadn't changed. Four cups is still a quart. All right, I'm gonna add two teaspoons of the smoked paprika

And like I said, that's gonna give it a nice little smoky taste. Also, give it a little color, too

Yeah, it's gonna give it some color. I'm gonna add our brand of hot sauce

All right, a couple of teaspoons of the hot sauce. Ooh, maybe one more little drap

All right, and I'm gonna drain our pimentas. So I'm just gonna..

All right, so I'm just gonna stick that in. Oh, yeah. It's looking good and juicy

All right, so I'm gonna put in about a cup and a half of cheddar

All right, and I'm gonna put in about three-quarters of Jack. Yum

Yeah, yum, yum. All right, I'm gonna get our 13-by-9 pan ready

I'm just gonna spray it so we can dip out that pimento

macaroni and cheese. And then I gonna take my saltine crackers and I just gonna crumble these up I don need but about a third of a cup It just a little bit to give it a little crunch

This is a great stick to use as a weapon, too. I mean, you could walk the hell out of somebody with that

All right, sonny boy, how's that looking? We're good. All right, I've got one pound of rotini

Is that right, Jamie? Yay! Oh, that'll work. All right, you want to taste it, Sonny Boy

See if it needs some salt and pepper? Sure. Ooh, definitely needs some salt and pepper

Or at least salt. A little bit. A little bit more. A little bit more salt, okay

Oh, you're tricking me. No, that's enough. Oh. Son, now I'm sorry

What? When my food comes to the table, I don't want anybody to have to pick up a salt and pepper shaker

My daddy salts his salt. And Mama's kind of like that, too, and we don't have salt

Mama, that's enough. When you use kosher salt to me it so much stronger than like regular salt And I have to be careful because Whoa wait We got some goods down in there I want to show y how much he was gonna waste

Oh, no! All that cheese... I will leave. I will leave right now

No, you won't. I'll leave with you. You gonna put these on top

Yeah, about a third of a cup, son, just to give it a little crunch. Yeah, we're gonna top it off with mo cheese

Like I said, there is so many ways to make macaroni and cheese, y'all

Wait now, you left a little bit in here. Oh, excuse me. I want y'all to see how much cheese she left in that bowl

It's not the Jamie Dean network. Going in the oven? Yes, you get the butt shot, baby

Look at that. Yum. Let's get breakfast when I'm filming with Mom

because I ate pimento cheese. Look at that brown part. I love that brown edge

That's food porn right there, baby. Food porn? Yes, food porn. Or something like that

Thanks for tuning in to the Paula D Network. Today's definitely a keeper. Keep going, Mama

Yum. Mmm