Classic Smooth and Silky Béchamel (White Sauce)

Béchamel sauce is the key to great lasagnas, soufflés and much more—and it's simple to make at home.

Our Go-to Macaroni and Cheese

Our family’s go-to Macaroni and Cheese! It has everything you want—a creamy cheese sauce with fall flavors: rosemary, nutmeg, and garlic.

Classic Baked Macaroni and Cheese Casserole

This classic (but epic) is loaded to the hilt with both cheddar and gruyère cheese, both in the form of a smooth béchamel and with fistfuls of grated goodness.

Creamy Baked Mac and Cheese

This baked macaroni and cheese recipe harnesses the amazing emulsifying powers of sodium citrate to make the gooiest and silkiest cheese sauce. It's like the boxed stuff, but even better because we use cheddar and Gruyère.

Macaroni and cheese

When you're in need of some easy comfort food, you can't go past macaroni and cheese. Here's how I make it at home. 

La Laiterie's Herbed Mac and Cheese

This adaptation of La Laiterie's casserole in Mac & Cheese is classic mac and cheese at its best: rich and soothing, but with a deeper complexity from the woody herbs and funky brie. It's a riff on the mac and cheese from La Laiterie in Providence.

Swiss Chard Gratin

A decadent take on a greens-filled side dish, this Swiss chard gratin features ham and a rich cheesy sauce that will impress your family and friends.

Mac and Cheese with Soubise Recipe | Cook the Book

Even with all of the rich ingredients that goes into baked mac and cheese, more often than not, there is something about the final dish that is bland. Somehow the sharpness of the cheese gets buried in the bechamel base, resulting in a side that's rich in texture but lacking the rich flavor we're looking for. To counter this blandness, Ruhlman has turned the bechamel base into an oniony soubise for this Mac and Cheese with Soubise, a baked mac and cheese that is never wanting for deeply warm, ch...

Baked Mac and Cheese

Still the best Baked Mac and Cheese I've ever had. Stunning white cheesy, creamy sauce, crunchy top. The Macaroni Cheese recipe of your dreams!

Ideas in Food's Macaroni and Cheese

Yet another favorite of ours, this appears on our table in various guises every few weeks. The evaporated milk may seem like an odd choice but it serves a purpose, helping to stabilize the sauce.