Restaurant I work for rotates a few menu items monthly, one of those being mac and cheese. Out of ideas, I suggested we do a well done 4 cheese mac.
The cheeses I decided ,rashly, were a nice smoked gouda, fontina, mozzarella (for texture/stringyness), and a one yr aged yellow cheddar. The cheese blend being 50% gouda, 50% even mix fontina, mozz, ched.
Hot pan, butter, salt, garlic, dash of rp flake. Deglaze white wine and a dash of lemon juice, reduce slightly, heavy cream and simmer, cheese blend. Stir until blended, noodles. Tossed into a small cast iron crusted in parm.
Its good... It's not great. It doesn't have that thick, amazing, almost fluffy texture. It comes out being more of a