{"id":212,"date":"2025-06-30T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/?p=212"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:43:37","slug":"gavins-mac-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Gavin&#8217;s Mac and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 \u00bd cups whole milk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 cup water<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8 oz dry pasta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 tsp dijon mustard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sprinkle cayenne pepper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 oz American cheese, grated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kosher salt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freshly ground pepper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 oz extra sharp cheddar, grated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start by combining 1 \u00bd cups of whole milk with 1 cup of water in a medium saucepan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then add and cook the pasta directly in the milk &amp; water mixture over medium heat while stirring and allowing the liquid to be absorbed by the pasta, about 1 minute before the pasta is done then reduce the heat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add 1 teaspoon of dijon mustard, a sprinkle of cayenne pepper and 4 ounces of grated American cheese then mix together over low heat before seasoning with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once the American cheese has completely melted add 4 ounces of grated extra sharp cheddar, kill the heat entirely and mix it until it is dispersed amongst the pasta then cover and let it rest 5 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After 5 minutes, give it a stir then serve and enjoy, or optionally toast up some bread crumbs in butter to top the mac and cheese with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: Instructions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehicksons.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}