{"id":1659,"date":"2012-04-19T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2012-04-19T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T01:54:48","slug":"mac-and-cheese-stuffed-poblanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Mac and Cheese Stuffed Poblanos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks ago when i was watching this food talk show on tv , i ran across something that caught my attention . I am not a mac and cheese person , i never grew up eating those kind of things .. even when i moved here and don&#8217;t get me wrong , i like cheese , but it&#8217;s not on my top of the list . Especially macaroni and cheese , i would be just fine without it . Well , my son likes mac and cheese , he loves the instant mac and cheese , and he loves the home made mac and cheese , although i don&#8217;t make mac and cheese that often , he doesn&#8217;t eat the instant ones that often either , but he would ask me a lot of time when we&#8217;re at the grocery store , if he could get it . I said no a lot of the time , i don&#8217;t like him eating too much junk stuff like that , but once in a while it&#8217;s okay .<\/p>\n<p>So , i mentioned that i made mac and cheese home made before , few times , and every single recipes that i used , i couldn&#8217;t care less about eating it , a lot of the time it&#8217;s too cheesy and i just can&#8217;t eat something with too much cheese . But today , it&#8217;s different .. it didn&#8217;t require all fancy cheese such as gruyere cheese .. like i did before . But just used monterey jack cheese .. and super easy and didn&#8217;t take time .. and this is the taste of mac and cheese that i can deal with . I had it for dinner !! Normally when i make mac and cheese , i don&#8217;t eat them ! But this time , i did !! So here goes ..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1661\" title=\"mac n cheese1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You need\u00a0 :(PS: if you don&#8217;t have poblanos , you can just use ramekins and it&#8217;ll be fine too that way )<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>8 poblano peppers<\/p>\n<p>1 large onion , sliced thin<\/p>\n<p>8 oz of elbow macaroni<\/p>\n<p>1 heaping tbsp. of all purpose flour<\/p>\n<p>2 cups of milk<\/p>\n<p>1 chicken bouiillon cube<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 tsp. smoked paprika<\/p>\n<p>2 cups of shred monterey jack cheese<\/p>\n<p>1 cup of crumbled cornbread<\/p>\n<p>salt to taste<\/p>\n<p>1. Preheat your broiler , then rub your poblanos with some olive oil evenly , then place it on a baking sheet under the broiler for a total of 10 minutes . Rotate the peppers so it will blister all over . Take it out when it&#8217;s done evenly , let it cool for few minutes , then peel off the blister while it&#8217;s still slightly warm , and then let it totally cool before make a slit on the pepper .<\/p>\n<p>2. Once it&#8217;s cool , slit the pepper and take out the seed and the veins inside carefully , you want the pepper be able to hold the mac and cheese , so it&#8217;s like a boat for the mac and cheese .Place on the parchment paper .<\/p>\n<p>3. In a skillet , cook the sliced onion until caramelized , about 16-20 minutes , medium low heat .Meanwhile cook the elbow macaroni according to the direction , then drain . Set aside .<\/p>\n<p>4. When the onion is done caramelizing , add 1 tbsp. of all purpose flour and cook for a minute to get rid of the rawness and then using a whisk , add your 2 cups of milk , and keep whisking until there is no lumps , then add your bouillon cube , paprika and salt\u00a0 and then it should get thicker about 4-5 minutes . Then add 2 cups of monterey jack cheese and stir well until it&#8217;s melted . Then add your elbow macaroni .Adjust your salt<\/p>\n<p>5. Scoop few tbsp. into the poblano peppers , and then sprinkle with crumbles cornbread and bake for 10 minutes at 350 F .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1660\" title=\"mac n cheese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mac-n-cheese.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>easy and quick mac and cheese , tasty and delicious with poblanos and smoked paprika .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-main-dishes","category-main-dishes-recipes","tag-poblanos-mac-and-cheese-stuffed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}