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today we're going to make baked macaroni
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and cheese mini bites an appetizer
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perfect for New Year's football season
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heck you can make these as a side dish
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serve them up with your meatloaf chicken
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pork or any other dish you want to make
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we're going to start with the pasta in
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the back while that's cooking we're
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going to make a delicious creamy sauce
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to pull it together bake it in the oven
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till it's golden brown and nice and
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crispy on the outside and then serve
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now I've brought a large pot of water to
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a boil you place a lid on it it comes to
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a boil faster we're going to add in
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about half a tablespoon of salt so we
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pasta we're going to use 8 oz I'm using
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elbows here you want to make sure that
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you're using a small pasta for this
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let's see right there that's look good
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we're going to stir the pasta for one
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minute that'll help keep it from
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sticking and then we're going to cook it
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for the directions on the back of the
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package for all Dente about 6 minutes
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I'm going to place my strainer on the
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pot and use that when we're ready to
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strain the pasta out once it's
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done now this is really easy to put
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together while the pasta is cooking
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we're going to go ahead and make that
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cheesy creamy sauce that's going to pull
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it all together you're just going to
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need a medium saucepan we're going to
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place it on a medium heat to the pan
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we're going to add in three tablespoons
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three we're going to allow that to melt
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okay now that we've got a Sizzle going
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on with our butter we're going to add in
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2 tpon of minced garlic I'm just using
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here little bit more there we
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go we're going to stir this
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minute I'm going to bring in my whisk
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here we're going to start whisking in
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two tablespoons of allpurpose
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flour and we're going to cook this for
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minutes make sure you time your minutes
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here all right on the last minute I'm
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going to go ahead and start seasoning
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with half a teaspoon of
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salt another quarter there has a quarter
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here 1/4 teaspoon of black
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pepper and then we're going to add in
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some paprika I'm going to sprinkle
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in I'm going to add in about a/4
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teaspoon a little bit
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more all right we're going to open up a
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can of evaporated milk we're going to
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if you don't have evaporated milk you
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milk there we go we're going to slowly
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milk look at that color
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yeah all right we're going to whisk this
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for about 5 minutes while that's
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happening we're going to shred some
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now I've turned off my
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sauce we're going to grate 8 oz of
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cheese I like to grate my own
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any inclusions in it and we don't want
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that potato starch that you normally
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cheese now I finished adding the other 4
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oz of the evaporated milk and smoothed
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sauce you want it nice and creamy like
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that we're going to add in the shredded
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cheese now I like to grate my cheese if
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you use the bag cheese I'm going to tell
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you what's in here which was crazy it's
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got a potato starch in there it's also
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got a natural mold inhibitor in there
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can you imagine what that is but this
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cheese right here it's cheddar
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cheese so we're going to go in I'm going
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in start mixing that in till it all
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melts right get it all stirred in
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now it may not all melt and that's
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totally fine because it will melt when
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we add the pasta and then also when it
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bake but you just don't want to cook it
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any longer than what we did there we
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go now this is where you're going to
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adjust any seasonings that you may
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want in your sauce here let me tell you
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I don't need any more
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so what we're going to do bring over our
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pot of cooked drained
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pasta and we're going to add the
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sauce oh that looks so good it's very
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tasty too let's mix this
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together I'm going to be using a
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241 muffin pan or you can use the 12
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muffin tin pan that's the standard size
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and you'll put more mixture into each
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one but I'm going to be using the minis
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here because they look like appetizers
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now I'm just taking a pastry brush and
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I'm just swiping it through some very
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soft butter here and I'm going to coat
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each of the tins here here you want
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these to pop out just like that get all
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the way down to the bottom and the
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sides now I will be laying my muffin tin
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on another sheet pan that'll just keep
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the butter from going into the oven we
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got our macaroni and cheese here I'm
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using a 1 and 1/2 in scoop or it's kind
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of like a two tablespoons worth that you
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can put into each cup so I'm just going
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to go in smooth it out and then pop it
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in just like that the perfect bite now
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make sure you push it in there that way
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it can form pretty good in
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there now you may have
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leftovers that didn't fit in the pan and
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after these cook you can make the rest
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of them or you can just put it into the
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refrigerator and use it for leftovers or
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heat it up for another
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meal cuz this can both be used as an
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appetizer or a side dish when you making
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the mini muffins here you're going to be
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using Less in each cup than you would in
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a standard size one you might be getting
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three or four of them in in that one
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there so you might have leftovers and
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have to double up I'm just going to put
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it in a to-go container and pass it off
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to the kids to take to their
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house because it won't even make it into
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the refrigerator I'm telling you not
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with them doose is the big cheese
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eater and he loves macaroni cheese now
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we are going to put a topping on here
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before we place it in the
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oven I'm going to be using some Italian
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breadcrumbs now the ingredients in here
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it has dried parsley spices onion powder
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paprika and other ingredients I just put
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it in a bowl here just going to use a
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spoon but it might be easier if I just
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do that right on top give it a nice
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little Crispy Crunchy bit on the top
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okay I've got my oven preheated at
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350° since I'm using the mini tins today
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I'm going to be baking these for about
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15 to 20 minutes till they're nice and
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golden brown on the top if you're using
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the standard size I would go up to about
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25 to 30 minutes I'll be back I
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sprinkled dried parsley on top to give
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it a pop of color I let these sit in the
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pan for about 5 minutes kind of pull
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their shape together the perfect mac and
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bite nice and crispy and golden brown on
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outside cheesy goodness on the
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inside those are going to be
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irresistible give me a thumbs up on this
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one are you using this for an appetizer
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or for a side dish y'all come check out
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my prior video right here and I will see
