Momma Pauline's Baked Mac And Cheese

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 (10 3/4 ounce) cans condensed tomato soup (campbells gives best flavor)
• 21 1/2 ounces whole milk (or two soup cans)
• 2 lbs ziti pasta
• 24 slices processed cheese, 8 reserved (kraft deli slices work best)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 -3 teaspoons black pepper (enough to cover top)
• 3 tablespoons paprika

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cook pasta until just al dente. it will continue to cook in the oven.
• 3 while pasta is cooking, empty soup into a medium sized sauce pan and use a rubber spatula to get all the soup out then add two soup cans of milk to the soup.
• 4 over medium to medium low heat blend the soup and milk. i use one of the attachments from a hand mixer rolling it back and forth in my palms. it works well and gets it done quickly.
• 5 rip 16 slices of the cheese into small pieces dropping them into the soup as you go stirring often.
• 6 as cheese begins to melt add the garlic powder and cover the entire top of the mixture with the black pepper and continue to stir until cheese is fully melted.
• 7 in a roasting pan, roughly 15x12 (i use the throwaway foil kind) add half of the ziti then half of the cheese sauce and mix thoroughly.
• 8 add the remaining ziti then sauce and mix thoroughly again.
• 9 lay the remaining 8 slices of cheese on the top of the ziti and paprika the top of the mixture.
• 10 cover tightly with foil and bake for 45 minutes.
• 11 let sit 15 minutes before serving.