Posted on 12/23/2012 1:04:14 PM PST by ColdOne
full title...Turkey, mac and cheese: Michelle reveals she's throwing out 'Let's Move' campaign to give her family a good stuffing on Christmas Day
Michelle Obama put her campaign to end childhood obesity on hold as she helped cook up some turkey, stuffing and mac and cheese.
The First Lady dubbed herself ‘hostess in chief’ as she welcomed the country into her family’s home for the holidays.
‘This is the time when I throw “Let's Move” out the window for a moment, and get that mac and cheese. Everybody deserves their mac and cheese,’ she told The Today Show this week.
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ditto though we’re in the midwest. I think it’s more family recipe related than anything - can’t stand the sweet potatoes with marshmellow myself for instance.
I don’t care for the marshmallow and sweet potatoes either. Looking forward to some cream peas and potatoes though.
I don’t care for the marshmallow and sweet potatoes either. Looking forward to some cream peas and potatoes though.
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Did we have the same mother? Gak...my mother made this atrocious sweet potato thing w/ marshmallows all melted on top. No one...no one but my mother ate that sweet goop. Dear mom also was the only one who ate the cranberry jelly that came out of a can. It was my job to cut it up. Which was like the most ridiculous part...as no one but her ate it.
Year later...and I mean years and years...I had fresh cranberries and fell in love. MMMM. Then a few years back someone introduced me to roasted sweet potatoes, coated w/ olive oil,kosher salt and a bit of cumin sprinkled on top. Love that too.
My Christmas ‘thing’ is a very fattening potato dish I make w/ gruyere cheese, heavy cream, onions, butter, garlic and thinly sliced potatoes. Oh my word...divine. And goes nicely with the prime rib the Mr prepares in the smoker. But...Christmas splurges, food, sweets and egg nog drinks, require me to spend a good deal of time on the treadmill. I am NOT going to go into January 5 lbs heavier.
That lardass’ butt has its own zipcode!
We’re doing the homemade Mac ‘n Cheese tonight. Tomorrow night is a crab feast and Christmas day will be turkey and ham.
Wookie, Malaysia & Saskatchewan at the trough!
I think you may be right. Yesterday I was watching Fox and Friends and that guy from “dadgumgood” was on there cookin’ up fried mac and cheese balls.
Made me hungry. I would eat them anytime of the year.
I bet ole Moochelle would too. They sure looked decadent...and mighty good. LOL
Oh, it is.
“A Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner without mac-n-cheese would be incomplete. Before you start mocking people on their class maybe you should learn about Southern traditions.”
I was headed in that direction until reading your post.
These folks have to be either yankees or city/suburbanites who don’t have a country bone in their bodies.
You haven’t had macaroni and cheese done right. Family recipes vary but they all involve three cheeses and baking in a casserole dish. Sharp cheddar, white cheddar and the third varies. I’ve had it made with pepperjack before. Browned on top, served by the slice like lasagna. It’s awesome. Every Thanksgivng and Christmas, it’s a well-loved side dish in the south.
cookin’ up fried mac and cheese balls
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dang that sounds fabulous. I’m going to have to try to figure out how to make those. Maybe for a play off Sunday appetizer.
We have to make up excuses in my house to eat fried stuff. We think of fried as the exception...kinda like dessert.
Nothing wrong with extra carbs. LOL! Plus, it reheats well the next day.
You can probably get the recipe on the FOX website. They usually have those available after there is a segment on the shows.
Shhhh.... I don’t like sweet potatoes with marshmallow either. I did try a recipe with mashed sweet potatoes and on top was roasted pecans. It wasn’t bad but I think I am the only one that ate it. Everyone eats homemade macaroni and cheese.. the cheesier, the better! Merry Christmas, Reed!
“My in-laws are Southern, college educated, professional, high income, conservatives, faithful Christians and classy. A Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner without mac-n-cheese would be incomplete. Before you start mocking people on their class maybe you should learn about Southern traditions.”
Thank you Abbeville. In fact, true Southerners consider mac & cheese a vegetable and it is served on holidays and most other times as well.
If you google mac and cheese and Christmas (I just did) Condoleesa Rice and a black woman interviewer said it was a black tradition.
Honey, I am from the Deep South. I was born and raised in Louisiana and have never resided above the Mason -Dixon Line. Maybe some families do have macaroni and cheese on the Lord’s Birthday, but we have never nor do we know anyone who has. And we are college educated, Christian, Raised Right and Old Money so don’t come down here pointing fingers. You are not one of us so don’t come down here spouting off like you are and can sit in judgement- being married into it doesn’t count.
And we are classy as well, but we don’t speak of it. It is just understood among others who are.
Gack. Between despising macaroni and cheese and putting maple syrup on grits, it’s only a matter of time until they send me back to Missouri in sackcloth and ashes ... and then there goes North Carolina’s new conservative majority ...
I’m drinking a pomegranate wine from Pine Level, NC, wherever the heck that is. Tom picked it out at Total Wine and then didn’t like it very much.
Pomegranate wine sounds sort of womynish. Probably pairs well with tofu, lol.
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