Cheese Sauce

This easy sauce can be used to make a quick homemade macaroni and cheese dish. Can also be used for baked potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, or anything else that needs a good dose of melty cheese.

2 Tbs butter
2 Tbs flour
2 cups milk
2 cups cheddar cheese
salt & pepper to taste (opt.)

Heat a medium size pot to medium. Melt butter. Whisk the flour into the melted butter until fully combined. Add milk. Stir frequently until milk boils. Allow to boil for 3 minutes or so while stirring frequently. Sauce will thicken. Add cheese and stir until melted. Remove from heat and add salt and pepper as desired.

Store in refrigerator up to 5 days.

Homemade Brown Sugar Syrup

This is so easy--you'll never buy syrup again!

1 cup water
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Dash cinnamon

1- Bring water to a boil. Add brown sugar. Stir occassionally. Boil 3 minutes.
2- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and cinnamon.

I store this in a quart mason jar. Does not need to be refrigerated.

Cute story: This is my husband's family's recipe. One day Marty's sister found a glass in the fridge that looked like root beer and took a swig only to find that it was really brown sugar syrup. After that, they affectionately named this syrup "Root Beer Syrup" and that's what they call it to this day.