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\ud83e\udd53 The best thing to do with leftover ham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There is always a chunk of ham left over after a holiday dinner, and nobody knows what to do with it on a Tuesday night. This is the answer. A baked mac and cheese casserole that feeds six, a three cheese sauce that coats every single elbow, smoked ham chopped fine through the whole thing, and a buttered panko crust that cracks under the spoon. The cheese stretches when you lift the first serving. You buy nothing special, you empty out the leftovers, and people ask for it again.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd55 The carrot puree hiding in the sauce<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I saw the idea on Pinterest: blend a carrot puree straight into the b\u00e9chamel. It is an incredible idea, it adds a lot of flavour to the macaroni. The carrots boil until they are really tender, they go through an immersion blender with a bit of chicken broth, and the puree vanishes into the sauce. Nobody sees it. What you taste is a rounder sauce, faintly sweet at the finish, that stands up better to sharp cheddar. It is a hidden vegetable mac and cheese that nobody reads as one.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\uddc0 Three cheeses, a leek and a crust that cracks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Gruyere, sharp cheddar and mozzarella, because each one does a different job. And a leek instead of the usual yellow onion, sweated with the garlic before the roux goes in, which softens the base of the whole sauce. It makes six large servings in a 9 x 13 in. dish, lunches for the week, and it reheats without drying out. If this is your kind of thing, look at my beer mac and cheese<\/a> and my zucchini mac and cheese<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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