Caribbean Macaroni Pie - Some Call it Macaroni & Cheese...

To a pot of boiling water, add some salt and some cooking oil. Cook the noodles in the boiling water for 15-20 minutes on medium (stir occasionally).

Strain the hot water off, and add cold tap water and strain. Repeat the process until the noodles are no longer hot. Keep the noodles moist.

Then pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. While the oven is pre-heating do the following:

Step 1: Add a layer of noodles, sprinkle with black pepper and some season salt, and mix it in

Step 2: Add a layer of cheese (pour one entire 2lb bag out), mix the cheese in and tuck it in on all of the sides. Be sure not to get any cheese on the bottom

Step 3: Repeat Steps 1-2

Step 4: Pour out the entire can of milk (move from side to side, front to back, so that the whole thing gets milk, and not just in one area)

Step 5: Place your baking dish/pan in the bottom rack of the oven, close the door and allow to bake for 45 min - 1 hour. When it's almost done you will smell it. The top layer of cheese will have turned dark (not burnt). Be sure most of the milk has been absorbed. You can do this by performing a simple test.

Get a butter knife and stick it in the mac standing up. If it stands firm, it's ready like Freddy. If it limps over and falls it needs to cook some more there is still too much milk.

You should be able to slice your Macaroni & Cheese like a Pie. In fact, where I'm from, we call it it "Macaroni Pie", not Macaroni & Cheese. Macaroni Pie goes very well with "Pigeon Peas and Rice"...What you say!!!

Special Notes: If you perfect this recipe, it will make you the talk of the town. You will become the Macaroni & Cheese person!!! Then you can say like I do with confidence, "I make some of the best Macaroni & Cheese in the World!!!"