{"id":854,"date":"2014-01-25T20:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/?p=854"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:57:14","slug":"sauce-cheese-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Sauce: Cheese Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>4 Tablespoons Butter<\/li>\n<li>4 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 cups Whole Milk (if you don\u2019t have whole milk, adding ricotta helps make it creamier)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup ricotta (or half and half, cottage cheese, or another 1\/2 cup of milk if you\u2019re lacking additional dairy products).<\/li>\n<li>1 cup grated cheddar<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper<\/li>\n<li>1-1\/2 teaspoon Salt or to taste (lack of enough salt is, as Ree Drummond says, what usually kills a mac and cheese)<\/li>\n<li>Freshly Ground Black Pepper or to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the stove, melt butter over medium heat. Sprinkle in flour and whisk to make a roux. Add milk and ricotta (or half and half, etc). Whisking constantly, while sauce thickens. Add salt, pepper, and cayenne then add the grated cheddar. Stir while cheese melts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my basic-basic go-to cheese sauce for making mac n cheese, or broccoli in cheese sauce:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 &#8211; 3 TBSP Butter<\/li>\n<li>2-3 TBSP Flour<\/li>\n<li>1 Cup milk<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8211; 6 OZ Cheese<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Tablespoons Butter 4 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour 2 1\/2 cups Whole Milk (if you don\u2019t have whole milk, adding ricotta helps make it creamier) 1\/2 cup ricotta (or half and half, cottage cheese, or another 1\/2 cup of milk if you\u2019re lacking additional dairy products). 1 cup grated cheddar 1\/8 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper 1-1\/2 teaspoon &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/?p=854\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-mishka","4":"post-854","6":"format-standard","7":"category-quick-dinners","8":"category-recipes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mishka.millefiori.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}