macaroni

Birthday dinners are a tactical operation: you order the dip, I’ll handle the macaroni and cheese balls, you grab the sliders.

I ordered my usual: fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, candied yams and a biscuit slathered in grape jelly butter.

Restaurants serve Southern-style food such as mashed potatoes, hash brown casserole and macaroni and cheese.

Sometimes the bread might have been too soggy, the apple slices may have browned or the texture of the macaroni and cheese may have changed after spending all day in a lunch box.

American cheese shines as the creamy base for homemade macaroni and cheese or game-day queso, dotted with spicy beef or chorizo.