Macaroni Bar

A macaroni bar! 

The office cafe often prepares personalized entrees that

are really fantastic- but a bit pricey!

They recently added a macaroni bar where you select the 

ingredients to be combined with whatever noodles you choose.

They use small skillets to quickly stir fry your choices and 

then add the sauce of your choice plus cheeses.  In no time

flat you have a specialized meal.

So why not do it at home?

My selections were:

chicken, cubed and precooked- seasoned with Montreal Steak seasoning

mushrooms,

orange sweet pepper, skin peeled

green onion, chopped including stems

spinach leaves, fresh

 Mozzarella, shredded

Parmesan grated, not the powdered type

Alfredo sauce 

(bacon would have been nice)

broccoli (that I forgot to add!)

elbow noodles

I placed the chicken and vegetables into a buttered skillet

and cooked until the spinach was wilted.

I used Montreal Steak seasoning rather than the chicken

because I wanted more pepper in it.

I added the noodles and let them heat a little.

I then added the Alfredo sauce and continued to stir.

At the last minute I added the cheeses until they melted.

Since we like the same things I did not personalize this

but it would be easy to do using a second small skillet

or quickly wiping the skillet clean.

With precooking chicken, enough for two meals,I saved a lot of time. 

I doubled what I needed and used half of the chicken

for quesadillas the night before.  I sprinkled taco seasoning, 

 did a quick stir fry in bacon grease to add additional flavor

and mixed it with my cheeses before cooking 

them on the flat grill.  

  I was not sure if my husband would like the macaroni bar

but he went back for seconds so I think it was a winner!