£8.49 / 1kg paper bag
The comfort insurgent.
Mac and cheese is the most loaded dish in British food — simultaneously nursery, hangover cure, and the thing you make when everything else feels too hard. We're not here to make it worthy. We're here to make it better.
Heritage grain macaroni has a nuttiness that changes the dish entirely. It doesn't go soft and sticky the way commodity pasta does. It holds its shape in the sauce, gives the whole thing a backbone. Add good cheese — proper cheddar, a handful of parmesan — and you've made something that earns its place on the table.
Texture & flavour: Shorter, thicker than supermarket macaroni. More bite, more flavour, more grain. The curve holds sauce beautifully. Does not turn to paste in a baked dish.
Cook it: Par-boil to just under al dente, finish in the cheese sauce in the oven. Or cold pasta salad with preserved lemon, herbs, and olive oil. Or just butter and black pepper at midnight. We've all been there.
Buy the kilo. Mac and cheese for four, twice, with enough left over for lunch.
£8.49 / 1kg paper bag
The comfort insurgent.
Mac and cheese is the most loaded dish in British food — simultaneously nursery, hangover cure, and the thing you make when everything else feels too hard. We're not here to make it worthy. We're here to make it better.
Heritage grain macaroni has a nuttiness that changes the dish entirely. It doesn't go soft and sticky the way commodity pasta does. It holds its shape in the sauce, gives the whole thing a backbone. Add good cheese — proper cheddar, a handful of parmesan — and you've made something that earns its place on the table.
Texture & flavour: Shorter, thicker than supermarket macaroni. More bite, more flavour, more grain. The curve holds sauce beautifully. Does not turn to paste in a baked dish.
Cook it: Par-boil to just under al dente, finish in the cheese sauce in the oven. Or cold pasta salad with preserved lemon, herbs, and olive oil. Or just butter and black pepper at midnight. We've all been there.
Buy the kilo. Mac and cheese for four, twice, with enough left over for lunch.