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I have a lot of fun figuring out how gourmet I can make otherwise generic food. If you can afford cheese, you can make your own sauces with milk and a sauce pan for macaroni, but even if you buy a box of mac and cheese, you can make it really good with a few extra steps. "Gourmet" Mac n'Cheese Casserole While the water is boiling, fry some onions in a 10" pan with vegetable oil. Add some celery too if you have it. The trick here is to use what seems like a lot of oil. You want about 1/8 of an inch over the bottom of the pan for one large onion. By the time that's done, your mac should be at the n'cheese stage because you prepared it as usual. To the m&c, add a can or two of tuna and the veggies and then stir. Now to make a roux, add some oil if you have less than half the oil you started with in the pan and turn the heat down to medium on a gas range or low-medium on an electric range. Slowly add milk until the pan filled with 1/4 inch of liquid. Now add roughly an equal amount of flour as you did oil to the mixture (~1/4 cup) slowly. Mix this in with a whisk or a fork. You should end up with a light-brown sauce of medium viscosity. Add salt to taste and fold the roux into the mac and cheese. The result is really good.
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