Deep fried mac and cheese wrapped in bacon

The only thing about this column is that the author, Kate Gibbs, talks mostly about women doing this amazing 'hipster food'. Also makes own tomato ketchup, jams, pickles, cures own charcuterie, particularly bacon, and has a вЂњonce the domain of the middle-agedвЂќ veggie patch. DIY sourdough? A weird way of putting it but yes I do make my own 'do it yourself' sourdough religiously, daily. Pasta from scratch, sure, but like you could also be, you know, Italian? I think theyвЂ™ve been at it a while too. Makes own butter, yep I do that, not all the time but when I can. LetвЂ™s see, based on this investigative, up-to-the-minute column there are a number of food 'trends' that hipsters are calling their own. Has the tribe IвЂ™ve spent my life trying to find finally surfaced in heavy rimmed glasses, beards, drinking cocktails so smugly from mason jars?

IвЂ™m reading through the column, asking if there is some sort of test I can give myself. So much time and money wasted trying to become an adherent to a UFO-based religion, when I could have just dressed like my grandparents and drunk kombucha.' What? I read this recent headline from a news website and thought, 'well then, maybe IвЂ™ve been a hipster all my life, just didnвЂ™t realise it. ''Homemade and made-from-scratch foods are the new hipster foods trends taking off.' IвЂ™ll see yвЂ™all down the trail.If you are going to have a hearty snack, it's a bit hard to beat the deep fried mac and cheese. Never look down on a person unless youвЂ™re offering them a hand up вЂ“ or a fried mac and cheese ball. Remember to subscribe to the YouTube channel, share the videos with your neighbors, and share the food. This stuff will flounder you up so good youвЂ™ll feel like a dead carp laying out in the sunshine after you went and ate too many, but you just canвЂ™t help yourself. Take a bite and look at that creamy, cheesy goodness that oozes out of the crunchy crust. TIP: After rolling the balls in the Panko use your hands to pack the breadcrumbs onto the mac balls. Repeat until the grease is hot and then fry these babies up until theyвЂ™re a beautiful golden brown. TIP: DonвЂ™t make the balls larger than golfball sized because you want them to warm thru when frying. I like to use an ice cream scoop to get the mac and cheese out, roll it in a ball, soak in the egg wash and really squish those bread crumbs in there nice and firm so they stick. YouвЂ™ll have the mac and cheese, an egg wash and some Panko bread crumbs. Once the mac and cheese is set up, go ahead and set up the assembly line. TIP: Everything behaves better in the fryer if itвЂ™s good and cold. Stir in some of my original seasoningВ to boost the flavor.ДЄt this point, we want to get the mac and cheese nice and cold in the ice box for 3 hours before we put it in the fryer. Then, mix in the drained chiles and bacon and onion. Add all the cheese and cream and stir until the cheese is melted. Put the stove on low and then add the pasta back into the pot. ItвЂ™s going to cook a little longer later on so we donвЂ™t want it to get too soft. TIP: Add some oil to the pasta water to prevent the pasta from sticking.Д¬ook the pasta until itвЂ™s just a little firmer than al dente and drain. Drain the bacon and onion on a paper towel. The flavor will be at its peak at that point, especially cooked in with all that hog meat. Once the bacon is just about done go ahead and add the onion until it gets golden brown. Once you get everything at home, get out your Stargazer skillet вЂ“ they recently won Popular Mechanics вЂњGear of the YearвЂќ for 2021, and youвЂ™ll see why when you dice this bacon up and get it to cooking. YouвЂ™re gonna need at least eight ounces, so get yourself a big bag.ДЄfter youвЂ™ve got the pasta and cheeses in your cart donвЂ™t forget to head over to the meat department and get you some thick sliced bacon. Now, when you get to the pasta aisle at the grocery store, get the large elbow macaroni вЂ“ not the small ones. Nothing makes mac and cheese creamier than Velveeta. ThereвЂ™s going to be Velveeta and cream cheese because we want the inside to be super creamy throughout.

WeвЂ™re going to go all out today with the cheese. YouвЂ™re never going to want that box of mac and cheese again once you try the cowboy version of fried mac and cheese, I promise you that.

The next time youвЂ™re walking down that grocery store aisle with all the boxed goods, and you see that blue box with the mac and cheese, just walk right on by and head over to the pasta aisle instead.

Deep fried mac and cheese wrapped in bacon