Crockery Cooking - Mac and Cheese

Fiiiiiiinally, a day off! In my place that means loads of laundry, cleaning, and cooking enough to last the week ahead. Crockpot cooking is my savior in that I can just dump a load of stuff in there and forget about it for a while. I'm good at forgetting. Seriously though, I couldn't live without my crock.. I love it to pieces!

Mac and cheese is one of those things I have a love/hate relationship with. I haaaate the stuff out of the box, microwave cup, or what have you. However I loooooooove homemade, oozing with cheese sauce that I made myself. I don't really have much time however, to sit over the range making a roux, then painstakingly adding bits of cheese and whisking till my arm falls off. No likey. This recipe is one I modified from A Year of Slow Cooking , and satisfies that need for oozy creeeeammy goodness (and lord is it creamy) without having to micromanage your sauce. I love lazy stuff that just comes together.