Baked Mac N Cheese... an essential recipe for comfort foods

• Ingredients:
• 1 package elbow pasta
• 1 egg
• 2 cups 2% milk
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 4 cups shredded Sharp Cheddar cheese
• salt and pepper to taste
• (optional paprika)

Topping:

1 cup of plain bread crumbs

5 strips of bacon

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a baking dish big enough to hold all the pasta.
• Cook elbow pasta in salted water until pasta is half way cooked. About 10 minutes. Drain pasta and set aside.
• In a bowl whisk together the egg and milk.  Then add in the butter and paprika before incorporating the cheese. Combine together well.
• Place the cooked elbow pasta into the baking dish. Then pour the cheese mixture on top of the pasta.  Mix together lightly to spread out the cheese. Sprinkle with salt and pepper for taste. 
• Cover baking dish and place in oven.  Check on the mac and cheese in 15 minutes and stir to make sure cheese is coating all the pasta well. 
• While mac and cheese is in the oven make the bacon crumb topping.  Chop the bacon and then crisp it up in the pan. Drain in a paper towel letting the bacon grease to be absorbed and remove as much of it as possible. Add bred crumbs to bacon and mix thoroughly.
• Once the cheese is completely melted in the mac and cheese, place bacon crumb topping on top and turn oven to broil to brown the top.  Once brown it's ready to be served!

Enjoy!!!

Oh and this isn't the most healthiest recipe and there are still some fine tuning that I have to do to it.  However by request I am posting this enjoy!