Beaujolais with Baked Macaroni & Cheese

Wednesday night and we were all in need of some girl time!! The girls were all here and all ready to drink some wine! Stephanie hosted this week. We had baked macaroni and cheese, Cesar salad and cooked carrots. Chocolate chip cookies for desert. Stephanie paired the mac&cheese with Beaujolais. All the ladies really enjoyed this wine. Alyssa brought a Pinot Grigio to satisfy her love for white wines. 

Sorry to disappoint our readers, but we do not have any quotes to share for the evening!! Instead you can salvate over the yummy M&C recipe down below. Stay tuned for next week's WWN at Betsy's new house!

 Recipe for Mac&Cheese (from Stephanie's Aunt Diane Mackereth)
1 lb. dried macaroni
1 egg
4 tbsp. unsalted butter
¼ c. flour
2 ½ cups whole milk
2 tsp. dried mustard
4 ¾ cups (1lb) grated cheddar cheese
1 tsp. ground black pepper
½ tsp. salt ½ tsp. seasoned salt

Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 2-3 qt baking dish. In a large pot of salted water cook macaroni until firm, about 4 min, drain. Beat the egg and set aside. In large saucepan melt butter over med/low heat and whisk in flour, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Whisk in the milk and mustard until smooth. Cook until very thick, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Slowly pour ¼ cup of the sauce into the beaten egg, whisking constantly, to temper the egg. Pour egg mixture back into the sauce. Reserve ½ cup of the cheddar cheese and stir the rest into the sauce until melted. Add the pepper and salts. Stir in the macaroni; then pour into the baking dish and top with the reserved cheese. Bake until bubbly and golden. 20-25 minutes.