Bucatini and Cheese Sauce

Easy Cheese sauce recipe.

1 Pint of heavy cream
6 Slices of American Cheese
2 - 4 ounces of Parmesan Cheese
A few dashes of Paprika, a small dash of Cayenne pepper

Bring over medium heat add cream to a small sauce pan, float the american cheese slice on top, and add the parm on top of that. When it begins to melt, Use a whisk blend all the ingredients.  Reduce heat to a low simmer and let it thicken, whisking occasionally until it has thickened and coats a spoon.

Adjust seasoning as desired.

I cracked bucatini noodles in half so it was like a jumbo marcaroni tube (bucatini are hollow and they are about the length of spaghetti. 

You can use any noodle, I would recommend something like penne, farfalle, macaroni, or shells becasue they will hold the sauce better.

You can also add protiens like shrimp, lobster, chicken, buttermilk chicken strips (see my past blog) or any thing else you want.

You could also add a bread crumb topping  (bread crumbs, herbs, salt, pepper, parm. cheese are good for this) and then brown under the broiler.

Other cheeses can also be used, cheddar is great but it can be difficult to blend, if you want to use that, grate it well and don't use more than 50% of the total cheese content with Cheddar. 

You can replace the American cheese with other good melting cheeses like mozzarella, provolone, that's all I can think of for now.  But make it your own, have fun.