I've been in search of a good baked mac 'n cheese recipe for years. The recipes I tried were good, but the texture or taste was never quite what I was looking for. I told my husband I wanted baked mac 'n cheese like we had in the school cafeteria back in the 70's. I was so happy when I ran across "Cafeteria Macaroni and Cheese." It was just what I was looking for! YUM!

I made this recipe for the first time a couple of years ago and it has been a favorite ever since. While it's not exactly like the General Chicken I get at my local chinese restaurant, it is equally as good if not better. I cannot imagine anyone not liking this. It's really not difficult to make at all - just a little extra time to fry up the chicken. As for ingredients, I've always cut the corn starch in half, omitted the msg, reduced the amt of chicken, and used 1 tsp crushed red pepper in place of the dried peppers. Perfect every time!!

DO NOT DO WHAT I DID! I bought a small 7 oz can of Chipotle Peppers in Adobo sauce. When I opened the can, the peppers were chopped. The back of the can said "Serving size 3 peppers in adobo sauce". I thought "I like spicy - what's one more pepper". My sauce came out RED, not a creamy sauce like I saw in the picture. Then I pulled the can out of the trash and read further "6 servings". That means I had the equivalent of 18 peppers!! Whoo! Talk about spicy! I was able to take 1/9th and add some milk and sour cream, and it came out pretty good! (Now I just have to fix this 8 more times to use up the rest LOL)

I found this recipe because I purchased turkey cutlets and had no idea what to do with them. The turkey marinated for about 2 hours, I forgot the dijon mustard and the basil, and it was still fabulous. I served it with "cafeteria macaroni & cheese" from this site and got a thumbs up from the family for the entire meal. I'll definitely be making this again.

These were really really good, but I hesitate to call them cookies. They're more like cookie-shaped mini-spongecakes. The pictures show nice lofty round cookies. Mine came out kinda flat. It was probably due to old baking soda, but the flavor was still very good. When I'm in the mood for a cookie I won't make these, but I think they would be wonderful for a baby shower with the icing tinted baby blue or pink.

The recipe looked so easy and the picture so yummy I had to give this recipe a try. I gave it 4 stars only because I made some personal changes. I don't really like jam or preserves and I didn't have any pie filling on hand, so I prepared the filling for an 8x8 lemon bar recipe (halved it). I put the filling in the microwave to thicken it up a bit so it wouldn't run. Filled the cookies, popped them in the oven and they came out fabulous! (and I'll admit I didn't have lemon juice - I substituted apricot nectar) Also, I have no patience and didn't chill the dough. It was a bit sticky, but not terribly hard to work with. (Luckily, low humidity today) I probably rolled my dough out a little thicker - ended up with only 20 cookies. Next time I'll double the recipe. Oh, and I should add it took nearly 20 minutes to bake.