Yes you can pretty much make anything into a muffin or so I have learned :)! Tonight's supper consisted of what I said in the title...MAC 'n CHEESE MUFFINS! I saw these and knew I HAD to make them since Wee-one seems to enjoy a muffin...every morning...for weeks on end (when we have some stashed in the freeze that is or I should say when Mommy is on the ball...)! The concept of muffins for supper...muffins made out of Mac 'n Cheese, well that just sounded like a little slice of heaven :)!
The prep time on these Mac 'n Cheese muffins wasn't too bad actually. Since I didn't make any macaroni noodles ahead of time or have any leftover I had to boil some but geez that's a piece of cake! Of course I had my Orange puree made already and the rest was stuff from my fridge. I was out of cooking spray (I know the HORROR) so I had to individually grease all the paper muffin liners but even that didn't take that long.
All in all I would say the Mac 'n Cheese Muffins were a HIT! Wee-one ate about half of one which is pretty good for him. He kept telling me and Hubs that this is what he had a daycare. I know they had it yesterday and I know it wasn't in the form of a muffin..only Mommy does strange stuff like that :)! I had to "cut" up the muffin for Wee-one though. I think it threw him off that his Mac 'n Cheese was all stuck together and somewhat resembled what he usually eats for breakfast. I thought he would joyfully pick it up and eat it like the sweet muffins he enjoys but he wasn't havin' any of that nonsense. So like I said, I cut it up and watched him eat it :)! We also had hotdogs and peas. Wee-one was stuffing handfuls of hot dogs in his mouth (don't worry they are cut up really, really, really good because I'm paranoid like that). I'm pretty sure he ate about half a hotdog too. The peas...yeah right...wouldn't even touch them let alone look at them! He doesn't know that he had just eaten carrots and sweet potato's in his muffin...SNEAKY :)!
I've rambled enough and you probably want to check out the recipe. So here it is in all it's glory!
Lunch Box Muffins-Mac 'n Cheese Flavor (or Mac 'n Cheese Muffins as I like to call them)
4 lg. eggs
1 c. Orange Puree (see post from Monday for puree recipe)
2 c. cooked macaroni
2 c. shredded low-fat cheese (Colby or Cheddar)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 and line a muffin tin with paper liners. Lightly spray liners with oil.
In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and Orange puree. Mix in the macaroni and 1 1/2 c. of the cheese. Divide the mixture evenly among 8 muffin cups. Top each with about 1 Tbsp. of shredded cheese and back for 20 to 22 minutes, until the cheese is lightly browned and bubbly on top. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Recipe by The Sneaky Chef Missy Chase Lapine
I'm not 100% sure on the size of muffin tin she used but when I made this recipe I got 12 muffins instead of 8. Just wanted to warn you in case you make it and have a TON of leftover. I used the traditional sized muffin tin but I'm thinking maybe a jumbo one would have worked too.
Tomorrow night I'm NOT making supper...this Momma is getting a break and going shopping with her BFF! And of course we're going out for supper too. Hubs and Wee-one will be enjoying a frozen Cheese pizza :)! And Sunday I won't post. Geez I know 2 whole days without me posting...What are you going to do??? Just kidding :)!!! I'll be back on Monday.
Oh and Wee-ones behavior is MUCH improved. We figured out that him only taking a 2 hour nap in the afternoon is a BAD thing. He was taking 3 hour naps up until this past Monday and for some reason waking up crying after 2 hours. Well the past few days he's been sleeping his 3 full hours again and is not as trying as he was being the other day when I posted. However with the 3 hour naps comes the "trying to get up at 4:30 a.m. for the day routine"...so I guess if that continues we'll have to try to figure out what to do. I probably could get a lot more done if I was up at 4:30 a.m. everyday but I get tired just thinking about that. WAY TOO EARLY for me thank you very much!
Well since I don't think I really went back to sleep after Wee-one tried to get up at 4:30 this morning, I'm going to call it a night. Gotta rest up for shopping tomorrow ;)! Good night and have a GREAT weekend!
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