Looks good! I hear Granny in the background, bless her heart. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the elderly. I love to hear them tell about days gone by.♥
That all looked so good. A big ole plate of down home cooking is a winner every time. I'd like to see Granny make the Holy Smoke Cake. I've never heard of that before.
I agree about the home cooking being a winner! Also you may know this already but on Tipper's blog you can get the recipe for the cake!!! I was excited to find it and thought I'd share. :)
@@CelebratingAppalachia I don’t know what Holy Smoke Cake is either but it looks and sounds good. Did you convince nana to do a video on it with you? lol
Happy Birthday Matt! What a wonderful dinner to celebrate. FYI: mustard is a classic spice for mac and cheese (actually, ANY cheese sauce) because it amplifies the cheese flavor.
I hope Matt had a happy birthday! The macaroni looks so creamy and delicious. I have never heard of a holy smoke cake. I would love for you to show us how to make one someday. Maybe granny would be willing to be in the video making it.
I love homemade macaroni & cheese. My mother would also fix for supper macaroni & tomatoes. One of my favorite sides. Thanks for sharing. Oh mercy, that ham, green beans and potato salad looks sooooo good. And I bet it did.
Man that looks like a delicious plate!! That Mac n cheese was perfect! I get tickled every time I see your pots because my mother had those. I still use them today. And I love seeing your kitchenware like the jadite and Texasware bowls. You just can't beat the "old stuff." Thank you for all the love and respect for old ways and things. ❤️ Happy Belated Birthday to Matt. 🎂
@@CelebratingAppalachia I know that recipe. The only difference is I use butterscotch pudding...and we call it Finger Lickin' Cake. Will use butter pecan the next time and see how we like it. I know it will be good! Thanks for pointing me to the recipe. Would still enjoy seeing Granny make it.
Sounds like a wonderful recipe to try. All 5 of the men in my life love Mac and cheese! Will be saving this recipe for our next big get together. Thank you, Tipper
Happy Birthday, Matt! This is one of my favorite dishes. I learned to make my recipe from the "Better Homes and Garden" cookbook I received as a wedding gift almost 48 years ago. It is still a book I have kept thru the years. Thanks for sharing! ❤️
That recipe looks fantastic. Being just me, I usually pick up a single serving at the Kroger deli. I just wouldn't know what to do with that much. Thanks for sharing. Happy Birthday Matt, you have a keeper...
Happy Birthday to Matt!🥳 His birthday dinner looked amazing, I might have to make that Mac n cheese! Today is my oldest daughter’s birthday as well, she’s a young 22 she moved back to Tennessee, first time I’ve spent a birthday with her in 4 years. Her birthday dinner of choice was spaghetti.🍝
That meal looks like our typical Easter lunch!! I know it must have been good! Happy Birthday Matt and thank you for always pausing to show your plate when I imagine you’d rather start eating! 😀
I love your show. This is how Black folks cook and the same foods! My mother’s family is from the eastern shore of Virginia next to the ocean so we ate lots of seafood. Your cooking and being with your family certainly warmed my heart. Unfortunately the older folks that cooked as you do have all gone home to the good lord as younger people just don’t take the time. The most important ingredient you use is love and it shows!
I add ground mustard to mine too, and use bacon grease whenever I have it along with the butter to make the roux. I also add a little cream cheese if I have it, and a touch of paprika, my West Virginia grandmother always added a little paprika on top! Love homemade macaroni!
I definitely have to make your Macaroni & Cheese, it looks & sounds so good. Homemade Mac & Cheese is in my top 10 favorite foods lol. I always made it for the Holidays. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us. Matt's a Blessed man to have you as his wife.
I grew up on Mac n cheese but I would stir in pork n beans with mine. I know that’s weird but so am I as I love them both. The more cheese the better. Happy Birthday Matt. We need to see Miss Cindy’s ham too!
Definitely going to try this recipe. So many things in your kitchen are in mine, too. Love my Revere Ware pots. That original jadeite bowl is one of my favorites. I've got a large jadeite collection that I use regularly.
I am going to have to try this creamy mac and cheese! I was lucky enough to have two Appalachian grandmothers who made two different styles of mac and cheese. I loved both kinds - one with eggs as well as milk, to use the surplus on their dairy farm, and always sharp cheddar; the other more like this one, with cayenne or paprika, mustard powder, black pepper, and a creamy Velveeta sauce, with cornflake crumbs on top, as she worked in the bleachery 9 to 5 and was very happy for convenience foods like cornflake crumbs and Velveeta that came out in the 50s, to save time when she got home at night. I've sort of combined their two recipes to make my own, but I adore making new ones. My favorite shot in this video was the whole table at the end - that meal is exactly what Mamaw made us for Easter, plus some devilled eggs and a banana pudding with meringue on top. The holy smoke cake looks amazing! Happy birthday, Matt!
Birthday Blessings to Matt! I've tried a bunch of mac and cheese recipes too, and our favorite is my husband's Auntie Bev's. Hers is easy peasy to make and takes an hour in the oven, which gives me time to relax a bit before dinner. I put an entire stick of butter on the top of it, sliced with a cheese slicer and it gets soooooo brown on top. Like you, I've varied the cheeses over the years and used up bits and bobs of cheese left in the refrigerator.
Happy belated birthday, Matt! I once dated a girl who made her macaroni like this....sure do miss that macaroni lol. Also, that ham looks perfect. How about Ms. Cindy's recipe for that and one for the tater salad too? God Bless Granny and her cake. I think that would be my favorite part of the whole dinner!
Happy belated birthday to Matt! I love a good homemade mac n cheese! Yours looked delicious! At the end of the video I could hear Granny talking about the weather. She has the sweetest and kindest voice. I love the interviews you have done with her. Even though I have never met her, I know she loves her family and had such a great love for her husband.
You answered my prayers! I was searching for a good homemade Mac and Cheese recipe for the last week or so. Couldn’t find one I felt led to make. Until now. Thank you!!!! 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️🙌🏽
“”HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 MATT”” “THANK YOU” FOR SHARING YOUR DELICIOUS MAC AND CHEESE RECIPE, I WILL SAVE AND PREPARE THIS RECIPE♥️ WONDERFUL SEEING FAMILY GATHER TO CELEBRATE AND SHARE A MEAL 🙏♥️🙏
That birthday dinner looked so yummy, wow! What I enjoy so much about this channel is the food is homemade and absolutely delicious! I’ve gained a new respect for home cooking, thank you. A restaurant birthday dinner is always nice, but this is definitely next level! Good vibes here! ✌🏼
This is how my family makes our mac'n'cheese. I've never seen anyone else who made it like this. So yummy and creamy. We live in Michigan but my parents are from California and I learned this from my mom, so the dish has moved all over!
I can't get over how so many of your recipes unlock the smells and tastes of dishes I grew up with back in the 50s and 60s. Thank you for the memories and for the new ideas I'm gonna try.
So familiar to hear people talking about WKRK in the background. A lot of the older folks of my family have passed, including my lovely grandmother. But this makes me happy hearing that and watching your videos. Brings back so many memory's! 😊
Happy Birthday, Matt! 🎂🎉🥳 I never met a Mac and cheese I didn’t like! This recipe is a keeper. I can’t wait to try making it with all kinds of cheese that may be leftover. ❤️
Happy Belated BDay Matt! Tipper all your recipes are so good, down home cookin'. So what a Holy Smoke Cake? We all would love to see ya make it. Have a Blessed 🙌 evening!
Homemade macaroni and cheese is my favorite dish; it’s the first thing my Mom taught me how to cook! My “recipe” is very similar to yours. Since I’m only cooking for myself, I eat half the pan over the course of a few days and freeze the other half in portions so I can have a quick, delicious meal with little effort.
Hi Tipper - To me macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food - esp the homemade kind. Your recipe looks wonderful. Belated Happy Birthday to Matt. What a great feast he and you all had. Cheers! 🌼🌼
I loved a great aunt's macaroni and cheese when I was a little girl. No one had her recipe after she was gone. I am always in search... It was crunchy on top but creamy inside. I look forward to trying yours. It looked really good. Granny's green beans looked terrific along with the rest of Matt's birthday dinner. Yummmmmm. Thanks for sharing your favorite recipe. Happy belated bday, Matt. 🎈🎂🎈
Yet another wonderful trip down Memory Lane. Growing up in Africa we would have macaroni cheese regularly. Just before sprinkling the last layer of cheese on the dish, we would add sliced tomatoes and then the cheese. Delicious!
Hello Tipper! You know what I am wishing? That I had been there for Matt’s birthday dinner! 😄 There was nothing on the table that I wouldn’t have loved. I’ve never made homemade Mac n cheese but it reminded me of my Mama saying she wished she knew how her Mother had made it. She said she used a couple or more kinds of cheese 🧀 and baked it in the oven. We had Mac n cheese growing up a lot. Due to limited money Mama always planned her weekly menu and said she had gone to the grocery store many times with a $5 bill. This was in the 50’s and my Daddy always worked. It wasn’t until I was 9 that we moved to the county and had an extra lot beside the house which had been Grandma’s. It was then that Mama planted a huge garden and my young Mama learned all about canning, freezing after we had a freezer, making jelly, apple butter. She and Daddy helped Papaw at hog killing time. I remember Mama’s stepmother and her making sausage. Somehow we had a freezer by this time so Papaw provided a portion of pork for us. I’ve always wondered why meat back then stayed good in the freezer for such a long time but if I buy meat now and freeze it it very often ends up in the trash due to freezer burn. I hate to waste money like that. Have you ever made Tomato Relish? Mama and I made it only once and it was wonderful! We had gotten the recipe from my step Mamaw’s niece in Blackwater, Virginia. We ate soup beans a lot throughout my life, not only because it was cheap and went a long way (there were only 5 of us) but Daddy loved it the thicker it got. Not me! This relish was so good on it! I love squash and zucchini relish too! My how I have strayed from the topic of Mac n cheese! Lol! You know how we old people love to reminisce! Not referring to you. I’m 71! The kind we had in earlier years was the kind that came in a tall skinny box and the cheese was powdered. It was 4 for a $1 back then. I’m pretty sure it was Kraft. Then came Velveeta! Now I have this wonderful recipe for homemade and my Mama is gone. Just had my 7th Mother’s Day without her. So many memories! I did not grow up in the mountains but in town and then the county but my Daddy was from the country and grew up so poor that his oldest sister said they weren’t even really aware of the Great Depression. I guess where I live and was raised was at the bottom of the mountains because I was only a couple of miles from VA where the mountains are still amazingly beautiful! I’m proud to be a southerner and not at all ashamed of being from Appalachian roots. Kingsport, TN is where I’ve lived most of my life. I can be in the mountains in short order in three different directions and three different mountain ranges. Smokies, Appalachian, and Blue Ridge Mountains. Could it get any better than this? Naw! Take care, keep up the good work, and remember you are appreciated. Btw, I have the Dorie book I bought at Cades Cove, my happy place! 💜🙏🏻
That looks so good! We love Macaroni and cheese. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Matt! Have a great year full of many blessings and adventures! Y'all stay safe and GOD bless
This recipe proves Matt is a lucky man!
Looks good! I hear Granny in the background, bless her heart. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the elderly. I love to hear them tell about days gone by.♥
Thank you Tammy 😀
Yes it was so sweet to hear Granny!! (I feel strange calling her Granny since she’s not mine, yet it also seems appropriate, so idk!)
@@attilynn3924 I feel kinda funny about calling her Granny too, but I think it might be ok :)
That all looked so good. A big ole plate of down home cooking is a winner every time. I'd like to see Granny make the Holy Smoke Cake. I've never heard of that before.
Thank you Roger! I'll try to get Granny to agree to a video 😀
I agree about the home cooking being a winner! Also you may know this already but on Tipper's blog you can get the recipe for the cake!!! I was excited to find it and thought I'd share. :)
@@CelebratingAppalachia Your mother is well loved Tipper. We love seeing her♥
@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes, would love to see that!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I don’t know what Holy Smoke Cake is either but it looks and sounds good. Did you convince nana to do a video on it with you? lol
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT.
Hearing their voices at the end wondering when the storm was coming really was heart warming❣️
Men are so simple. Wife: “What do you want for your birthday? “ husband: “ Mac n cheese”
Happy Birthday Matt! What a wonderful dinner to celebrate. FYI: mustard is a classic spice for mac and cheese (actually, ANY cheese sauce) because it amplifies the cheese flavor.
That table spread of food is exactly what my north Georgia mom would make for our Easter meal, along with deviled eggs.
I hope Matt had a happy birthday! The macaroni looks so creamy and delicious. I have never heard of a holy smoke cake. I would love for you to show us how to make one someday. Maybe granny would be willing to be in the video making it.
Thank you! Hopefully I can get Granny to show us 😀
Yes I would love to see Granny cook with you/ThePressleyGirls!!!
I love homemade macaroni & cheese.
My mother would also fix for supper macaroni & tomatoes. One of my favorite sides. Thanks for sharing. Oh mercy, that ham, green beans and potato salad looks sooooo good. And I bet it did.
Happy BIRTHDAY, Matt!
Man that looks like a delicious plate!! That Mac n cheese was perfect! I get tickled every time I see your pots because my mother had those. I still use them today. And I love seeing your kitchenware like the jadite and Texasware bowls. You just can't beat the "old stuff." Thank you for all the love and respect for old ways and things. ❤️ Happy Belated Birthday to Matt. 🎂
Happy Birthday Matt! This really looks good. Will be trying your recipe soon!
Hope you enjoy 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Could you also give us the recipe for Granny's cake? It looked so good!
@@CathyHendrix1 I wondered the same! Glad you asked.
@@CathyHendrix1 I'll see if I can get her to do a video! But you can find the recipe here: blindpigandtheacorn.com/holy-smoke-cake/ 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I know that recipe. The only difference is I use butterscotch pudding...and we call it Finger Lickin' Cake. Will use butter pecan the next time and see how we like it. I know it will be good! Thanks for pointing me to the recipe. Would still enjoy seeing Granny make it.
Sounds like a wonderful recipe to try. All 5 of the men in my life love Mac and cheese! Will be saving this recipe for our next big get together. Thank you, Tipper
I hope they like it as much as we do 😀
Happy Birthday, Matt! This is one of my favorite dishes. I learned to make my recipe from the "Better Homes and Garden" cookbook I received as a wedding gift almost 48 years ago. It is still a book I have kept thru the years. Thanks for sharing! ❤️
Me too! My favorite version. Hope you're safe and sound.
That recipe looks fantastic. Being just me, I usually pick up a single serving at the Kroger deli. I just wouldn't know what to do with that much. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday Matt, you have a keeper...
Happy Birthday to Matt!🥳 His birthday dinner looked amazing, I might have to make that Mac n cheese! Today is my oldest daughter’s birthday as well, she’s a young 22 she moved back to Tennessee, first time I’ve spent a birthday with her in 4 years. Her birthday dinner of choice was spaghetti.🍝
Happy Birthday to her! So glad you got to spend it together 😀
That does look like the best mac n cheese EVER! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks Tipper and Happy Birthday Matt!!!
It's so good 😀 Thank you 😀
Happy Birthday Matt! Thanks for the recipe Tipper. It looks amazing! Have you done your potato salad recipe on video yet? I would love to see it.
Thank you!! I believe it's on one of the My Life In Appalachia videos, but hopefully I can do a stand alone potato salad video 😀
That meal looks like our typical Easter lunch!! I know it must have been good! Happy Birthday Matt and thank you for always pausing to show your plate when I imagine you’d rather start eating! 😀
I love your show. This is how Black folks cook and the same foods! My mother’s family is from the eastern shore of Virginia next to the ocean so we ate lots of seafood. Your cooking and being with your family certainly warmed my heart. Unfortunately the older folks that cooked as you do have all gone home to the good lord as younger people just don’t take the time. The most important ingredient you use is love and it shows!
So glad you enjoyed it 😊 thank you
That looks just like mama's macaroni pie. The entire meal looks like mama's. That's a very special dinner. Happy Birthday Matt!!! Thank you Tipper!!!
What a lovely birthday dinner. Made especially for him.
Happy Birthday Matt. That Mac 'n Cheese looks delicious. And the entire dinner was made with love and fit for a king.
Happy birthday, Matt 🎉🎂
Woohoo, everything looks wonderful and tastes even better when surrounded by FAMILY!Happy Belated Birthday Matt !🎉🙏💞
Nothing better than down home. Southern comfort food. God bless you heart ❤️ and I mean that in the good way 👃✝️
Happy birthday Matt. This meal looks delicious. Can we get the others to share their recipes? I would enjoy sharing them with my family. Thank you
I add ground mustard to mine too, and use bacon grease whenever I have it along with the butter to make the roux. I also add a little cream cheese if I have it, and a touch of paprika, my West Virginia grandmother always added a little paprika on top! Love homemade macaroni!
I definitely have to make your Macaroni & Cheese, it looks & sounds so good.
Homemade Mac & Cheese is in my top 10 favorite foods lol.
I always made it for the Holidays.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us.
Matt's a Blessed man to have you as his wife.
HaPpY belated birthday Matt 🎂 🥳
I grew up on Mac n cheese but I would stir in pork n beans with mine. I know that’s weird but so am I as I love them both. The more cheese the better. Happy Birthday Matt. We need to see Miss Cindy’s ham too!
I hope Matt had a wonderful birthday! This is the way to celebrate! It looks so delicious 🥰
Thank you so much 🤗 He did have a good day!
Definitely going to try this recipe.
So many things in your kitchen are in mine, too. Love my Revere Ware pots. That original jadeite bowl is one of my favorites. I've got a large jadeite collection that I use regularly.
I am going to have to try this creamy mac and cheese! I was lucky enough to have two Appalachian grandmothers who made two different styles of mac and cheese. I loved both kinds - one with eggs as well as milk, to use the surplus on their dairy farm, and always sharp cheddar; the other more like this one, with cayenne or paprika, mustard powder, black pepper, and a creamy Velveeta sauce, with cornflake crumbs on top, as she worked in the bleachery 9 to 5 and was very happy for convenience foods like cornflake crumbs and Velveeta that came out in the 50s, to save time when she got home at night. I've sort of combined their two recipes to make my own, but I adore making new ones. My favorite shot in this video was the whole table at the end - that meal is exactly what Mamaw made us for Easter, plus some devilled eggs and a banana pudding with meringue on top. The holy smoke cake looks amazing! Happy birthday, Matt!
My mouth is watering everything looks delicious. Happy birthday Matt you're a lucky man🥳🥳
Birthday Blessings to Matt! I've tried a bunch of mac and cheese recipes too, and our favorite is my husband's Auntie Bev's. Hers is easy peasy to make and takes an hour in the oven, which gives me time to relax a bit before dinner. I put an entire stick of butter on the top of it, sliced with a cheese slicer and it gets soooooo brown on top. Like you, I've varied the cheeses over the years and used up bits and bobs of cheese left in the refrigerator.
Sounds great 😀
The macaroni looked yummy ! The birthday feast looked awesome! Happy birthday Matt! Thanks tipper....God bless y'all...🙏❤
Well Happy Birthday Matt many many more to come to you !!! That spread is like it is fit for a King for You Matt !!! Sure looks great enjoy it !!!
Happy belated birthday, Matt! I once dated a girl who made her macaroni like this....sure do miss that macaroni lol. Also, that ham looks perfect. How about Ms. Cindy's recipe for that and one for the tater salad too? God Bless Granny and her cake. I think that would be my favorite part of the whole dinner!
Thank you! I'll see if we can do some videos of the other things 😀
Looks delicious 🎊 🎂🎉💯🌹happy birthday Matt
Happy belated birthday to Matt! I love a good homemade mac n cheese! Yours looked delicious! At the end of the video I could hear Granny talking about the weather. She has the sweetest and kindest voice. I love the interviews you have done with her. Even though I have never met her, I know she loves her family and had such a great love for her husband.
Happy Belated Birthday, Matt! 👍🏻😊😁🎉💯🎉
You answered my prayers! I was searching for a good homemade Mac and Cheese recipe for the last week or so. Couldn’t find one I felt led to make. Until now. Thank you!!!! 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️🙌🏽
Happy birthday Matt! May you have many more.
Wonderful Birthday Dinner! Happy Birthday Matt! Definitely gonna have try that Mac N’ Cheese, it looked SO good, along the rest of the food! 😋😋🥰
Happy Happy Birthday Matt!!!🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂😘😘😘😘😘😘😉😘😉😘♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻HAVE A GREAT ONE!!!!🥰☮️🕉☘️
😀 Thank you!
Happy Birthday Matt, I hope you've had a marvelous time with your family. The food looks amazing wish I had some!
“”HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 MATT””
“THANK YOU” FOR SHARING YOUR
DELICIOUS MAC AND CHEESE RECIPE,
I WILL SAVE AND PREPARE THIS RECIPE♥️
WONDERFUL SEEING FAMILY GATHER TO CELEBRATE AND SHARE A MEAL 🙏♥️🙏
That birthday dinner looked so yummy, wow! What I enjoy so much about this channel is the food is homemade and absolutely delicious! I’ve gained a new respect for home cooking, thank you. A restaurant birthday dinner is always nice, but this is definitely next level! Good vibes here! ✌🏼
This is how my family makes our mac'n'cheese. I've never seen anyone else who made it like this. So yummy and creamy. We live in Michigan but my parents are from California and I learned this from my mom, so the dish has moved all over!
Looks so delicious!!! 😋 Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe! Mr. Matt looked so happy when he tasted it. 🌼
Thanks so much! 😊
I can't get over how so many of your recipes unlock the smells and tastes of dishes I grew up with back in the 50s and 60s. Thank you for the memories and for the new ideas I'm gonna try.
Happy belated Birthday, Mat! That meal looked so delicious! I always enjoy your videos,Tipper.
Happy Birthday Matt! 🎂 🎁🥳
Matt’s birthday dinner looks delicious! Love your cooking videos especially! Happy Mother’s Day,Tipper! 🌹
So familiar to hear people talking about WKRK in the background. A lot of the older folks of my family have passed, including my lovely grandmother. But this makes me happy hearing that and watching your videos. Brings back so many memory's! 😊
My mother always added an egg to help congeal it a little. Everything is the same as yours. The dry mustard is the secret!!
Happy Birthday Matt🎊🎉🎈🎁🎂
Happy Birthday, Matt! 🎂🎉🥳
I never met a Mac and cheese I didn’t like! This recipe is a keeper. I can’t wait to try making it with all kinds of cheese that may be leftover. ❤️
It's so good!
Happy belated birthday, Matt!!!🥳🎉🎊
This whole meal is making my mouth water!! That would be like a last meal request for me. I hope this birthday leads to a fantastic year, Matt!
Happy Birthday Matt! You are one lucky man. You have the most valuable thing in life: a good family!
Happy Belated Birthday Matt,you are Awesome
Miss Tipper, tell Matt Happy birthday and many blessings today and every day!
Thank you Diane I will 😀
Happy Belated BDay Matt! Tipper all your recipes are so good, down home cookin'. So what a Holy Smoke Cake? We all would love to see ya make it. Have a Blessed 🙌 evening!
Thank you! I'll try to get Granny to do a video with me about the cake 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia ❤👍
Wow. That might be the best (and tastiest) birthday celebration I ever saw. Matt is a lucky man !
Happy Belated Birthday to Matt! Thank you for this recipe.
Happy Belated Birthday Matt!!
I hope you enjoyed your special Birthday Dinner!❤🎂🎈🎉
WhoooooWeeeeeee That was a fine looking spread, Happy Birthday Matt, you are a lucky man for sure!
You did good Matt for sure!
Happy Birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MATT!!!
My mouth is watering! YUM! Happy Birthday Matt!
Happy Birthday Mr Matt! Dinner looms delish!
💖Happy Birthday Matt may you have many more, thats one fine looking meal
Happy Birthday, Matt!! Yum, one of our favorites!
Happy Birthday Matt God bless you
I do believe that is a feast that could bring peace & goodwill to all of us. Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Matt! 🎉 Hope you enjoyed your day. 😊
Thank you! 😃
I enjoy these stories! I feel like it's from home. Thank you Tipper!
Glad you like them!
Homemade macaroni and cheese is my favorite dish; it’s the first thing my Mom taught me how to cook! My “recipe” is very similar to yours. Since I’m only cooking for myself, I eat half the pan over the course of a few days and freeze the other half in portions so I can have a quick, delicious meal with little effort.
That is one fine looking meal! Happy birthday to Matt.
I hope Matt enjoyed his birthday! Wow what a birthday meal! Yummy! I am watching and getting all of these good recipes! Thanks Tipper!
Hi Tipper - To me macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food - esp the homemade kind. Your recipe looks wonderful. Belated Happy Birthday to Matt. What a great feast he and you all had. Cheers! 🌼🌼
That's one nice looking birthday supper for Matt. And granny's cake! Can't ask for anything better to eat. 🎉
I loved a great aunt's macaroni and cheese when I was a little girl. No one had her recipe after she was gone. I am always in search... It was crunchy on top but creamy inside. I look forward to trying yours. It looked really good. Granny's green beans looked terrific along with the rest of Matt's birthday dinner. Yummmmmm. Thanks for sharing your favorite recipe. Happy belated bday, Matt. 🎈🎂🎈
Matt speaks volumes when he tasted it! Sp cute. Happiest belated birthday. Iam trying this soon!
God bless you all for coming together like this family is so important.
Love your down home way of talking. Reminds me of my childhood. Like your recipe, too.
Gorgeous meal. I know Matt had a happy birthday ❤️
I will definitely be trying this ! Happy Birthday Matt! 🎂Thank you Tipper😊🇨🇦
HHAPPY BIRTHDAY to such a good family man. Best wishes for good health and life’s joy that you so deserve.
Happy birthday Matt you are a lucky 🍀 man. 😊
Yet another wonderful trip down Memory Lane. Growing up in Africa we would have macaroni cheese regularly. Just before sprinkling the last layer of cheese on the dish, we would add sliced tomatoes and then the cheese. Delicious!
What a perfect plate at the end! Happy belated Birthday to Matt :)
The food looks great. Thank you for sharing 💕 😊 the recipe!! Happy belated birthday Matt.
Hello Tipper! You know what I am wishing? That I had been there for Matt’s birthday dinner! 😄 There was nothing on the table that I wouldn’t have loved. I’ve never made homemade Mac n cheese but it reminded me of my Mama saying she wished she knew how her Mother had made it. She said she used a couple or more kinds of cheese 🧀 and baked it in the oven. We had Mac n cheese growing up a lot. Due to limited money Mama always planned her weekly menu and said she had gone to the grocery store many times with a $5 bill. This was in the 50’s and my Daddy always worked. It wasn’t until I was 9 that we moved to the county and had an extra lot beside the house which had been Grandma’s. It was then that Mama planted a huge garden and my young Mama learned all about canning, freezing after we had a freezer, making jelly, apple butter. She and Daddy helped Papaw at hog killing time. I remember Mama’s stepmother and her making sausage. Somehow we had a freezer by this time so Papaw provided a portion of pork for us. I’ve always wondered why meat back then stayed good in the freezer for such a long time but if I buy meat now and freeze it it very often ends up in the trash due to freezer burn. I hate to waste money like that. Have you ever made Tomato Relish? Mama and I made it only once and it was wonderful! We had gotten the recipe from my step Mamaw’s niece in Blackwater, Virginia. We ate soup beans a lot throughout my life, not only because it was cheap and went a long way (there were only 5 of us) but Daddy loved it the thicker it got. Not me! This relish was so good on it! I love squash and zucchini relish too! My how I have strayed from the topic of Mac n cheese! Lol! You know how we old people love to reminisce! Not referring to you. I’m 71! The kind we had in earlier years was the kind that came in a tall skinny box and the cheese was powdered. It was 4 for a $1 back then. I’m pretty sure it was Kraft. Then came Velveeta! Now I have this wonderful recipe for homemade and my Mama is gone. Just had my 7th Mother’s Day without her. So many memories! I did not grow up in the mountains but in town and then the county but my Daddy was from the country and grew up so poor that his oldest sister said they weren’t even really aware of the Great Depression. I guess where I live and was raised was at the bottom of the mountains because I was only a couple of miles from VA where the mountains are still amazingly beautiful! I’m proud to be a southerner and not at all ashamed of being from Appalachian roots. Kingsport, TN is where I’ve lived most of my life. I can be in the mountains in short order in three different directions and three different mountain ranges. Smokies, Appalachian, and Blue Ridge Mountains. Could it get any better than this? Naw! Take care, keep up the good work, and remember you are appreciated. Btw, I have the Dorie book I bought at Cades Cove, my happy place! 💜🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing!! I enjoyed hearing about you and your family 😀 I've made tomato preserves but its been ages 😀
Happy birthday, Matt!! Thanks for this yummy recipe!
That looks so good! We love Macaroni and cheese. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Matt! Have a great year full of many blessings and adventures! Y'all stay safe and GOD bless
That looks so delish! Happy belated birthday, Matt!