{"id":2543,"date":"2009-02-21T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2011-05-03T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:00:12","slug":"this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"This &#8216;Cheese Lover&#8217;s Five Cheese Mac &#038; Cheese&#8217; Won $25,000 In An Ultimate Recipe Showdown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2676\" title=\"misc-023-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-023-copy-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"misc-023-copy\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-023-copy-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-023-copy-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-023-copy.jpg 1355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Macaroni and Cheese helped Rick Massa win $25,000 in a Food Network <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/ultimate-recipe-showdown\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Recipe Showdown<\/a> Comfort Food Competition.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s\u00a0now on T.G.I. Friday&#8217;s Menu.\u00a0 After seeing the Judges rave about it, I had to make it too, especially since it includes Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2677\" title=\"misc-008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-008-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-008\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2678\" title=\"misc-0101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-0101-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-0101\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2679\" title=\"misc-002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-002-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-002\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2680\" title=\"misc-014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2681\" title=\"misc-015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2682\" title=\"misc-018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/misc-018-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"misc-018\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I followed the <a title=\"Original Recipe posted by the Food Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/cheese-lovers-5-cheese-mac-and-cheese-recipe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">exact recipe<\/a>.\u00a0 It was very good, but I didn&#8217;t fall in love\u00a0with it like I wanted to.\u00a0 I toasted and smashed\u00a0my own Breadcrumbs, which made the Cheese Crumb Topping extra tasty.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll definitely use the same topping on future casseroles &#8212;\u00a0It&#8217;s excellent when crispy.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus INFO:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thebittenword.typepad.com\/thebittenword\/2009\/05\/mac-and-cheese-revisited.html\" target=\"_blank\">Collection of MORE Terrific\u00a0Mac &amp; Cheese Recipes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Macaroni and Cheese helped Rick Massa win $25,000 in a Food Network Ultimate Recipe Showdown Comfort Food Competition.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s\u00a0now on T.G.I. Friday&#8217;s Menu.\u00a0 After seeing the Judges rave about it, I had to make it too, especially since it includes Bacon. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 I followed the exact recipe.\u00a0 It was very good, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[745,359,1,1716,1469,50,177,41],"tags":[2551,2550,2548,2552,2547,3884,2546,2545,2554],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This &#039;Cheese Lover&#039;s Five Cheese Mac &amp; Cheese&#039; Won $25,000 In An Ultimate Recipe Showdown. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"FoodBlog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/\",\"name\":\"This 'Cheese Lover's Five Cheese Mac & Cheese' Won $25,000 In An Ultimate Recipe Showdown. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-02-22T03:59:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-03T09:00:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#\/schema\/person\/d13703add5ff9ca85c0ddc52a749afd2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/this-cheese-lovers-five-cheese-mac-cheese-won-25000-in-an-ultimate-recipe-showdown\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This &#8216;Cheese Lover&#8217;s Five Cheese Mac &#038; 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