Tasty Thursday - Butterkase Macaroni

My husband has been on a bit of a cheese kick lately.   According to him, there are so many cheeses that we just never try and he has decided that each shopping trip we should try a new cheese, just to broaden our horizons.

I like cheese well enough that I was all on board with this idea.

On Monday we took a trip to the grocery store and in the fresh deli section we selected a small block of Butterkaese (this is how it was spelled on the package) cheese, imported from Germany and known for it's buttery taste.  (Yeah...I had no idea about any of this, but the package was nice enough to inform me.)

Great!

Now what?

Thank goodness for the internet!  I searched recipes and found this little gem from Betty Crocker: Butterkase Macaroni and Cheese.

Perfect!  Expanding horizons and making the kids happy all at once.

Oh my goodness.  This was delicious!  I pretty much followed the recipe except I had cooked up some bacon to go in a salad and had a little extra, so I threw that in too.  Oh, and I didn't have fresh cilantro or parsley, so I just sprinkled a little dried parsley.

The mac and cheese was so creamy and tasted really buttery thanks to the flavor of the cheese.  Yum!  I highly recommend giving it a whirl.

Now I know this isn't a super healthy option.  But it is made from scratch, clean eating.  So that's a bonus.  But remember, I did mention a salad too.  I had about a half a cup of scrumptious cheesy goodness along with a hearty salad covered in this greek dressing. 

 All-in-all it was a very filling and tasty meal.

And the kids and hubby enjoyed it too. :)

Win win win.

Now go out and find ways to broaden your own food horizons just a bit.

Edited: I entered the ingredients for the mac and cheese into MyFitnessPal and came up with the following:

4 servings: 
Calories: 456
Carbs: 51
Fat: 21
Protein: 20
Sodium: 415

My portion was more like 1/2 serving size, so calories = 228