Macaroni and Cheese

You can eat only so much rice and so much grits. So once in a while, Momma would stir up some macaroni and cheese for us. Some Sundays, she would even serve it beside the rice with our big dinner.

“Y’all churn go catch da fire in da stove, so dat oven can git hot,” she would say. And within the hour her Sunday baking would be in the oven.

For her, macaroni and cheese was often an afterthought. In my house, macaroni and cheese has been a staple Side dish. Put it on a plate be