The Only Macaroni & Cheese Recipe You'll Ever Need!! 

Men are so simple. Wife: “What do you want for your birthday? “ husband: “ Mac n cheese”

This recipe proves Matt is a lucky man!

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.

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.♥

My mother always added an egg to help congeal it a little. Everything is the same as yours. The dry mustard is the secret!!

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 hope Matt had a wonderful birthday! This is the way to celebrate! It looks so delicious 🥰

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.

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.🍝

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.

That does look like the best mac n cheese EVER! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks Tipper and Happy Birthday Matt!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT.

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! Thanks for the recipe Tipper. It looks amazing! Have you done your potato salad recipe on video yet? I would love to see it.

Happy Birthday Matt! This really looks good. Will be trying your recipe soon!

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.

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 table spread of food is exactly what my north Georgia mom would make for our Easter meal, along with deviled eggs.

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. 🎂

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 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 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.

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! 😀

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! ✌🏼

My mouth is watering everything looks delicious. Happy birthday Matt you're a lucky man🥳🥳

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 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!

The macaroni looked yummy ! The birthday feast looked awesome! Happy birthday Matt! Thanks tipper....God bless y'all...🙏❤

Wonderful Birthday Dinner! Happy Birthday Matt! Definitely gonna have try that Mac N’ Cheese, it looked SO good, along the rest of the food! 😋😋🥰

Woohoo, everything looks wonderful and tastes even better when surrounded by FAMILY!Happy Belated Birthday Matt !🎉🙏💞

Matt’s birthday dinner looks delicious! Love your cooking videos especially! Happy Mother’s Day,Tipper! 🌹

🧀 ➿ 🍽 I need to.make this recipe!! THANK YOU! 😁 ...Say "cheese" 🧀 !!!

Hearing their voices at the end wondering when the storm was coming really was heart warming❣️

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! 🎂🎉🥳 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 BIRTHDAY, Matt!

Looks so delicious!!! 😋 Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe! Mr. Matt looked so happy when he tasted it. 🌼

Happy Birthday, Matt!

Happy belated Birthday, Mat! That meal looked so delicious! I always enjoy your videos,Tipper.

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!!!

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 Birthday Matt, I hope you've had a marvelous time with your family. The food looks amazing wish I had some!

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.

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!

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!

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!

What a lovely birthday dinner. Made especially for him.

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!

Nothing better than down home. Southern comfort food. God bless you heart ❤️ and I mean that in the good way 👃✝️

Ms Cindy’s ham looked delicious ~ maybe she would be kind enough to share how she makes it. I saved your macaroni and cheese recipe, thank you 😊. Hope Matt had a fun birthday celebration!

Holy smoke cake? Sounds good. This is the way my mama taught me to make macaroni and cheese. I love it.

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!

Love your video as usual Tipper. Cant go wrong when sharing recipes. The meals you serve your family are amazing. Matt Happy Birthday! You better watch out Matt, youll get fat! 🌹

Ma always put a few good shakes of dried mustard in hers..yes you're right it gives it a wee lil twang. Yummy. The browned top a little crunchy...Ooooo, so yummy.😊

“”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 🙏♥️🙏

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! 🌼🌼

HaPpY belated birthday Matt 🎂 🥳

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

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 birthday 🎂 🖖😉🍻😎👍

Love your channel! Great looking meal !.. are those Tar Heel green beans ?

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. 🎈🎂🎈

We always made extra of everything at our get togethers and sent food home with everybody

Happy Birthday to Matt. That meal looks amazing. I have tried a ton of Mac and cheese recipes too and they have always been too dry. I cant wait to try your recipe. Every meal you put on the table makes my mouth water!!

Aww Ms Cindy made the ham. May she rest in power.

Happy birthday, Matt 🎉🎂

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.

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 LOVE macaroni and cheese! That looks so darn good! I had a friend tell me she put in chicken broth in her recipe (I should have written it down). Well it all looks so darn good! Happy Birthday day Matt!

New to the channel and I LOVE it! So down to earth and homie! Nothing complicated and overly fancy. You mentioned that you like shredding your cheeses? The reason for that is there is no coating on the cheese (this preserves the shredded cheese that you buy in a store) which makes a good bake! I usually use shredded cheese for salads and microwaveable homemade pizza.

Happy Birthday to Matt....what happened to his mom!😍😍💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Sounds soo good.

Happy birthday Matt!! Food looks delicious 😋

The packaged shredded cheese has a preservative coating on it to keep it from sticking together. I,too, only buy it in blocks. Love your channel!!❤❤

Made this recipe tonight...and it was a big hit with the family! They all complimented me about it! Cheers!

Love love Mac and Cheese and I always used what's in the fridge.....LOOKS SO GOOD !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT🧋🎊🎉🦌🎈🎊

That looks so good.Happy Birthday Matt.Hope it's best ever God bless.👏🎉🎊🙏😁🎈🙏🎊🎉😁🎂🎂🎂

Basically you make a rue like for breakfast gravy, looks like macaroni in gravy.I don't like my macaroni real soft, I prefer my pastas al-dente' boy that ham looks wonderful!! Delicious looking meal!! Yummy!!!! Looks like our celebrations, good old country food and family and a homemade cake!!! I bet he enjoyed his meal, ladies!!!😁😀🍖🎂🍰🍽🍴🍴🍴🍴⛪💒🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Finally! A mac n cheese recipe WITHOUT Velveeta!!!! Can't wait to try this!!

Happy birthday Matt! Blessings to you and your family. What a feast!

Great Recipe. I garnish with Cayenne Pepper. A very light dusting. The 12 and under menu I substitute with Paprika.

My grandma put buttered cracker crumbs on top before baking..... yours looked awful good Tipper. Keep them videos coming ❤

I don't drain. But. I don't put much. Water. A lots of butter. Milk.cream. A dab salt. And. Three chesses. In. Oven.

My mawmaw recipe for baked mac@cheese... Macaroni, little milk,flour (slurry)salt pepper and cottage cheese....then just add cheddar cheese that's it...bake the best

Wow. That might be the best (and tastiest) birthday celebration I ever saw. Matt is a lucky man !

Thank you for the video and recipe!! Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Matt! May you have many more wonderful years to celebrate your special day! I'm definitely going to have to make that mac n cheese and also Granny's Holy Smoke cake! Love, peace and blessings to you all! 🙏🏻😊💖

Tipper … how many cookbooks do you have… and where do you keep them … bought when I was a young girl probably 19 I have a McCalls cookbook from the 1960’s… Betty Crocker(in a binder)and a Better Homes & Garden (in a binder) and miscellaneous others over time … love ❤you n your family… not a day goes by that I don’t watch(2,3,or more videos even watching some more than once 😄…

I hope Matt enjoyed his birthday! Wow what a birthday meal! Yummy! I am watching and getting all of these good recipes! Thanks Tipper!

OMG Tipper, tried it...finally got the mac and cheese the way I wanted it!!! Thanks. Nothing like a big plate of homemade mac & cheese!!!!

HHAPPY BIRTHDAY to such a good family man. Best wishes for good health and life’s joy that you so deserve.

Looks delish but also fattening with the cream-----the top is slightly crusty from baking --- that looks especially delicious !!

Buffalo Cracker-oni and cheese. Add buffalo pulled chicken between layers of mac and cheese, the brown a stuffing or cracker crumble stuffing on top. Oh. My. Goodness.

Block cheese you grate yourself is better, pre grated cheese has an anti caking ingredient in it. It's some type of cellulose gum. I make Mac and Cheese exactly the same way as you. Sometimes I add bread crumbs to the topping cheese for a little crunch. And ham is good to add also or chili and hotdogs for chili cheese dog mac... Kids love it!

This LOOKS like the BEST MacnCheese recipe ever! 😋 Thanks Tipper. I see why measuring is important. 😋🤣

Happy Birthday 🎁🎈Matt! I love homemade Mac & Cheese, but, I don’t like a vegamel sauce. It’s me and, my daughter’s favorite comfort food. My my mom uses a couple of scant tablespoons of flour butter and milk on each layer, double layers. Then, I watched how Paula Deen makes hers with no flour, just sour cream then you mix the butter milk and seasonings in like a cold sauce, and, you finish the sauce with flour. I use 2 to 3 different type of cheeses and, I do a white version. And, course baking it. Me and my mom just never liked the flour sauce that well. You will have to do a video and give us the recipe for the Holy Smoke cake. Thanks for sharing and God bless!

Everything looks delicious! Happy Birthday Matt!! Blessings to you! I will try this macaroni recipe. I am like you, I have tried several over the years and they never seem creamy or flavorful. Thanks

Mac. N cheese. With real. Sharp,,,Chedder cheese. And real mac, some people put just dab. Of mayo in,there's. But I don't like. Mayo but I like. To add a dab of real butter . I like to add just little Suger not much. Just a pinch. And. And just tiny bit a salt. Now I like black pepper but I add that. after when I put it on my plate.,,

YUM YUM we always sprinkle garlic salt on top of ours, individually of course try mixing in browned hamburger and green peas sometime

I am really glad that I found this recipe! Yummy! Thank you for sharing!

That would definitely be my choice for a birthday dinner. My stepmother alway made a fried chicken dinner for my birthday and it was delicious but I think I would like this one even better. Matt, I envy the way you get to eat,Lol. Just teasing. Looked wonderful. Enjoy and God bless you and yours. Thank you for sharing this.