Green Well Mac-n-Cheese

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup diced ham
• 4 slices bacon

  cooked and cut into pieces or crumbled
• 2 cups roast chicken, shredded

  I use a store bought roasting chicken.
• 2 cups sliced, mini portobello mushrooms

  whatever you have on hand will work
• 2 cups snow peas
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 tbsp minced garlic

  approximately 2 cloves
• 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
• 1/2 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
• 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar
• 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
• 4 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 pound cavatappi ridged pasta

  pasta with ridges hold on to the cheese sauce
• 1/4 cup fresh basil

  chiffonaded
• salt and pepper

  to taste

Instructions

• 1 boil noodles, per box directions (al dente=not too done) and drain, reserve 1/2
  cup of the pasta water
• 2 fry bacon, while that’s frying dice your ham and pull your chicken
  
  add chicken, bacon and ham into large skillet oven medium heat, to heat through.
• 3 Add mushrooms about 3 minutes until mushrooms start to brown
  
  add tomatoes, peas, thyme and garlic cook for a minute until garlic warms up and
  tomatoes start to pop.
• 4 Add all the cheese to meat and vegetables, pour in heavy cream allow about 30
  second for cheese to start to melt then with a big rubber spatula, fold
  together, being careful not to break up tomatoes.
• 5 add in cooked noodles and basil gently stir to coat, if it seems to thick or
  gloppy add in pasta water a little at a time until you get the perfect
  consistency.
• 6 taste and add salt if needed, I find I do not need to add salt because of the
  salty bacon and cheeses, however I do add a few cracks of fresh ground pepper.

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