On 16 Mar 2007 18:06:46 -0700, "aem" wrote:

On Mar 16, 2:49 pm, Dave Smith wrote:
BookWight wrote:
due to physical limitations, I can't stand in the kitchen for long periods
of time. Looking for a mac & cheese recipe that I can just throw
everything together & bake. Something in a crockpot would be a bonus.

Why do you need to stand there for long periods. You can always boil water
in a kettle (to speed things up a bit) while you get out a pot and the
macaroni. I make the cheese sauce while the pasta is cooking. By the time
the pasta is cooked the sauce is ready to go. Then it gets popped into the
oven.

Exactly. I didn't understand the original question either. The time
spent standing in the kitchen is in standing at the stove to stir the
cheese sauce. For the rest, including boiling the pasta, you can
start it, go away and lie down, and come back. Is there a way to
reduce the cheese sauce to something you can just throw together? No,
not if you want the real stuff. If you don't, use the stuff in the
box. -aem

Exactly. Cooking pasta doesn't require standing... put the pot of
water on the stove, turn on the oven timer or kitchen timer for ten
minutes, come back and add pasta, set timer for 15 minutes, come back,
drain pasta...

Making the sauce generally requires standing over the stove, but you
can get around that too - once the pasta is cooked mix all the rest of
the ingredients into it and pour it into a baking dish. top with
cheese and bake until it's all set. It won't be runny, but it doesn't
take a lot of standing.