Mac N Cheese Study

Recipe courtesy Melissa Mayer, San Diego, CA, 2007

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Total Time:
1 hr 15 min
Prep
30 min
Cook
45 min
Yield:
8 servings
Level:
Easy
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Ingredients

  • 1/4 pound Humbolt Fog cheese (Cypress Grove)
  • 6 ounces goat cheese (Colorado), divided (recommended: Haystack Mountain Snowdrop)
  • 1/2 pound goat cheese (Italy) (recommended: Brunet)
  • 1/4 pound mild semi-hard cheese (recommended: Old Kentucky Tomme)
  • 1 pound goat cheese (Spain) (recommended: Pata Cabra)
  • 5 ounces goat Gouda (Holland) (recommended: Ballerina)
  • 2 lemons
  • 2 teaspoons smoked hot paprika
  • Finely ground Mediterranean sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 3 quarts shrimp stock or water
  • 1 pound strozzapreti pasta, dry (recommended: Montebello Organic)
  • 1 pound tubetti lisci pasta, dry (recommended: Pastificio Riscossa #64)
  • 4 artichokes
  • 8 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 7 bay leaves
  • Olive oil
  • 1/4 pound pancetta, thickly sliced (recommended: Golden Farms)
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 2 tablespoons garlic granules
  • 2 teaspoons Spanish paprika
  • 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
  • 2 teaspoons crushed Italian seasoning
  • 3 egg whites
  • Sugar
  • Snipped fresh chives
  • *Special equipment: kitchen torch

Directions

Grate all the cheeses and keep separated. Zest 2/3 lemon into goat gouda. Add smoked paprika and salt and pepper and blend.

Bring shrimp stock or water to a boil. Add strozzapreti and tubetti pastas. Bring water back to a boil and cook about 6 to 8 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Peel fresh artichokes down to heart, removing choke. Boil artichokes to a soft-firm (about 20 minutes). Roast your artichoke hearts with lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic, bay leaves and a splash of olive oil for 15 minutes in a preheated 350 degrees F oven. Chop artichokes into 1 1/2-inch chunks and set aside.

Rough chop and saute your pancetta in pan until just crispy on outside- do not overcook.

For the sauce:

Start by melting the butter. Then add a tablespoon all purpose flour and whisk together to create a roux. Add cream, then garlic granules, Spanish paprika, salt, red pepper flakes, cayenne, Italian seasoning and the juice of 1/2 lemon. Add your cheeses 1 at a time: first the melted Pata Cabra goat cheese, then your Humboldt fog and goat cheeses. Reserve 2 ounces of the Haystack for final garnish. Fold in egg whites. Blend until all cheese is melted. Add pancetta and artichokes. Now add your cooked pasta to mixture, making sure all the pasta is coated.

You can cook for just a bit longer. Add salt, to taste, as needed. Place into small bowls and garnish with remaining goat cheese. Sprinkle sugar onto the cheese and brulee with a kitchen torch. Garnish with chives and serve.

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  • on January 18, 2009

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    Let's keep this review space about the food...and not about the personalities.

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  • on July 02, 2008

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    I watched the mac and cheese food network challenge and I just wanted to say that if I were a judge, I would NEVER have selected Melissa to win anything! Regardless of her "unique" mac and cheese study, she was arrogant, ignorant, and so negative --ok Melissa, national televison viewers around the world saw how depressed you are so maybe you should seek help?- anyway, my friend from college also worked in her resturant and said she was the WORST boss anyone could ever work for. Even if she had an amazing dish I still would not have given her an award because she is the most negative person I have ever seen on the food network. She said she was "devastated" about winning third place- HOW UNGRATEFUL!

    I will NEVER make her recipe and the food network will never use it either- Melissa, you need to smile and be thankful you ungrateful "chef" (haha

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  • on September 17, 2007

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    what a crock.
    ill just mosey on to the store, buy my Haystack Mountain Snowdrop Colorado Goat Cheese, Brunet Italian Goat cheese, some Old Kentucky Tomme semi hard cheese, Ballerina Gouda, imported by hand from Holland, pancetta, mediterranian sea salt, tubeti isci pasta, strozzapreti pasta, shrimp stock, spanish paprika, kitchen torch, artichokes...

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