From Home Alone · 1990 · Reconstructed
The Highly Nutritious Macaroni Dinner
Serve when
Serve it at 8 o'clock sharp, grace said, right before the burglars arrive — the dinner Kevin never gets to eat.
In the movie
Theatrical
- 01:12:38 Kevin sets the table for one — 'a highly nutritious microwavable macaroni and cheese dinner' — says grace, and abandons it untouched as the clock strikes and Operation Ho-Ho-Ho begins.
The mac and cheese is the film's best sight gag about growing up: Kevin does everything right — real dinner, napkin, grace — and then walks away from it to defend the house. The abandoned plate is practically a character.
Ingredients
Method
- Boil the macaroni al dente.
- Butter-flour roux cooked a minute to lose the raw-flour taste, milk whisked in, thickened; cheese melted off heat with the mustard. Grate the cheddar yourself — the anti-caking dust on pre-shredded cheese makes a grainy sauce.
- Fold in the macaroni; season.
- Plate at a properly set table, say grace, check the clock.
- Unlike Kevin, eat it. (If burglars arrive, priorities.)