# @melissajorealrecipes on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAJgmCBz_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37145861-melissajorealrecipes-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/44ee59678a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-11-20T14:17:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Melissa Kauper (@melissajorealrecipes) — https://gondola.cc/melissajorealrecipes

## Caption

Comment RECIPE 🧀 🦃 for the full recipe! Curious & curiouser… I watched video after video of everyone’s baked macaroni & cheese for Thanksgiving dinner. And , not even one video has the two ingredients that I believe MAKE a baked macaroni and cheese unbelievable! Now, this has nothing to do with the great egg vs. roux debate. To me that’s nonexistent.. roux is the way to go. But, my grandmother taught us to ALWAYS add a little bit of finely diced sweet onion into the butter before adding the flour. NOW. This is our recipe and my grandmother is Italian as am I amd most of my family, but here’s the thing. You do NOT brown the onions, you simply slowly sauté them in the butter until translucent and A TINGE of golden color. That’s the trick. You mustn’t fret about the onion, 🧅 NUMBER 1: nobody will see it in the Mac. NUMBER 2: but EVERYONE will wonder why your baked macaroni and cheese is the best they ever had #thanksgivingdinner #thanksgivingsides #bakedmacaroniandcheese #thanksgivingfood #holidaymeals

## Stats

- **Views:** 44,015
- **Likes:** 5,052
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- **Comments:** 3,133

## Tags

bakedmacaroniandcheese, thanksgivingfood, thanksgivingdinner, thanksgivingsides, holidaymeals

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