Grad party

[HoosierKettle]

Today was my daughters high school graduation party. It was shared with 6 other kids in a school gymnasium.

The pork was catered by a local guy. 75 lbs. it was delicious. I thought about doing the pork but decided I would rather have someone else do it for an event this size.

Thinking I was off the hook cooking, it was brought to my attention that the party responsible for Mac and cheese couldn't do it. Also there was no bbq sauce but store bought.

I frantically went shopping for supplies this morning. I had no idea how to gauge how much to make. I ended up making the Mac and cheese using cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, and Gouda. 10 lbs of cheese total. I also used 4 boxes of elbow macaroni. I made a basic sauce with heavy cream and butter followed by sour cream, a little mustard, hot sauce, spices. I also fried a package of bacon and blended up and mixed with bread crumbs for a topping.

I didn't follow a recipe and didn't measure a thing. Just started dumping ingredients. I baked it on site in a convection oven. All of it was gone in the first two hours with overwhelming compliments from people I didn't know.

The sauce lasted the entire 4 hours but barely. It seemed to be a big hit as well and finally gave me an excuse to buy those restaurant squeeze bottles. I've got 6 now.

I thought I was getting out of cooking for this event but I was wrong. It was a great time.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the weekend.

Sorry no pics. 


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[michaelmilitello]

Today was my daughters high school graduation party. It was shared with 6 other kids in a school gymnasium.

The pork was catered by a local guy. 75 lbs. it was delicious. I thought about doing the pork but decided I would rather have someone else do it for an event this size.

Thinking I was off the hook cooking, it was brought to my attention that the party responsible for Mac and cheese couldn't do it. Also there was no bbq sauce but store bought.

I frantically went shopping for supplies this morning. I had no idea how to gauge how much to make. I ended up making the Mac and cheese using cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, and Gouda. 10 lbs of cheese total. I also used 4 boxes of elbow macaroni. I made a basic sauce with heavy cream and butter followed by sour cream, a little mustard, hot sauce, spices. I also fried a package of bacon and blended up and mixed with bread crumbs for a topping.

I didn't follow a recipe and didn't measure a thing. Just started dumping ingredients. I baked it on site in a convection oven. All of it was gone in the first two hours with overwhelming compliments from people I didn't know.

The sauce lasted the entire 4 hours but barely. It seemed to be a big hit as well and finally gave me an excuse to buy those restaurant squeeze bottles. I've got 6 now.

I thought I was getting out of cooking for this event but I was wrong. It was a great time.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the weekend.

Sorry no pics. 


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"Freestyle" mac n cheese.  Awesome !


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[mhiszem]

Glad it all worked out!


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[TheKevman]

Sounds like an adventure! Well done!

[JEBIV]

sometimes recipe's are merely a suggestion, well done!