Girl dinner could be something simple like cheese and crackers (and maybe a couple grapes on the side), but if you’re a professional chef like Ree Drummond, even her comfort foods come out tasting divine. The Pioneer Woman shared a recent girl dinner she made for her sister Betsy Lee Smith, jokingly calling it a “Spicy Sister Supper” — and it looks so good.
One of the “stars” of the meal is Baked Pepper Mac & Cheese, a spicy and creamy dish that you’ll want seconds (and thirds!) of. “It’s creamy, it’s spicy, it is so cheesy, very worthy of the Smith sisters, who are renowned cheese lovers, by the way,” Drummond says in a video shared to Food Network’s YouTube Channel.
She starts with an easy cooking “shortcut.” “Instead of making a white sauce with butter and flour, I am kinda taking this shortcut with milk and cream cheese. … It’s just a little bit of a time saver, and of course, cream cheese is wonderful and creamy and marvelous.”
More ingredients (including three different cheeses!) go into the saucepan for the mac and cheese base. She shared that she invariably has “approximately seventeen-hundred small packages of cheese or little end pieces here and there.” So she just chooses three to include in her mixture.
Boil macaroni or a different type of pasta. This time, she uses campanelle pasta for “a really fun shape.” She adds drained pimentos and herbs, adding, “Oh my gosh this is looking so saucy and marvelous!” Drummond praises. Jokingly adding, “Two words I would use to describe my little sister.”
Afteward, she pours into a small baking dish, making a breadcrumb topping with seasoned panko crumbs and different colored peppers. She tosses it together to combine the sliced peppers with the breadcrumbs to ensure a bit of spice in every bite!
Commenters praise this delightful dish. “Looks great. Love macaroni & cheese- and spicy. 👍” one person wrote. “Just discovered the cappanelle pasta! It’s so beautiful and fun❤” someone else said.
“This looks utterly delicious 🤪,” someone else wrote.
The Pioneer Woman is full of great recipe ideas, both for casual get-togethers and for holiday parties. Like the double chocolate pie that even kids would devour after Thanksgiving dinner.
Get Drummond’s full Baked Pepper Mac & Cheese recipe is online HERE.
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