Mac & cheeseis easy to nail ( the two eponymous ingredient are corking on their own ) but also painfully sluttish to muck up and overcomplicate .

But when done right , adding a little flourish to your mack – in the form of ranch , bacon , or Viscount St. Albans and cattle farm , for example – can be exactly what you need to rationalize eating the stuff   for an entire week straight . One of the best places to find extra component to lodge between yourmac and/or cheeseis Pinterest . So we found some . And now , here they are .

Cajun shrimp mac & cheese

This Bayou - inspired , bread mac & cheese recipe uses three cheeses ( cheddar , Jack , and Parmesan ) to make it the secondly - best Cajun mac & high mallow pick out there . The first is obviously just blending your Popeyes edict with three slices of Kraft .

Mushroom and white truffle mac & cheese

For those who bid to bougie - fy their macintosh ( and if you do , you are plausibly not the kind of mortal who would say the word " bougie - fy " ) , you may add a dose of form to your m & c in the form of shrooms . And if that summer keep an eye on Phil Lesh taught me anything , shrooms make everything better . Except pet zoos , really .

Pulled pork spätzle mac & cheese

Spätzle is a soft German ballock attic . Pulled porc is what an Übermensch   would conjure if someone tell , " Hey Übermensch , can you create the most delightful center bed to mankind ? "

It ’s a wundermeat and a wundernoodle . Also , there ’s cheese .

Gluten-free vegan mac & cheese

commonly , I would never stomach fail gluten - free or vegan , but I do understand that folks have dietary and/or moral issues that just ca n’t be avoid . If you have to go down that route , this is your best stakes .

Tortellini bacon mac & cheese

If my Italian gran could see me now , notify people to maculate tortellini with bacon and Velveeta , she ’d be rolling in her grave accent .

in reality , I do n’t have an Italian gran . My Irish grandma is rolling in her grave because I called her Italian .

Cheeseburger mac & cheese

When I ask our internal hamburger criticKevin Alexanderif he ’d ever be down to rank this ( amazingly easy ! ) cheeseburger mac & cheese recipe – withground squawk , chopped cheddar , and 1st Baron Verulam – he firm asked me to leave him and his house alone . Which I ’ll take as a solid " maybe . "

Ranch mac & cheese

Einstein ’s third ruler of combustion claims that every food for thought is inherently doubled in note value when ranch dressing is added . In that vein , this ridiculously easy - to - make mac & cheese ordinate three cheeses – colby , Monterey Jack , Parmesan – crushed - up Ritz firecracker , and the elixir of the gods themselves ( cattle ranch ) to make a metaphysical , cheesy formula suitable of your dinner plans .

Mac & cheese pizza

Some call this an hellish alliance of the earth ’s best food . I call it a fooling supper .

Chili mac & cheese

Chili   is a clip - effective way to dress up your mac & cheese . Which is wholly different from Chilli , my favorite member of the iconic pop / R&B group TLC .

Bacon and broccoli mac & cheese

The Viscount St. Albans offsets the broccoli . Problem solved .

Chicken Parmesan mac & cheese

Some may argue this combo of chicken Parmigiana ,   rotini pasta , and creamy Wisconsin mozzarella peradventure be a littletoomuch . I f*cking hate those people .

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Cheesy mac and cheese

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