Bacon Mac & Cheese

Recently Husband and I have been watching a lot of Iron Chef America. We discovered it's on Netflix and well, it's more entertaining than a lot of the other TV offerings out there right now. (Although we love Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It's hilarious.) Anyway, this week's recipe is courtesy of Iron Chef Michael Symon. You can find it here.

I adore mac and cheese. And I don't know a single person who doesn't love bacon. Win win, right? The recipe calls for alpine-style cheese, so I used gruyère. Side note here: gruyère is hard to find. And expensive. I found it at Harmon's in their fancy cheese island. And honestly I think the cheese was the problem. I should've taken it as a sign when I could smell it as I was grating and didn't like it. I don't have any pictures of the steps because honestly, the recipe is pretty simple. The only thing I had trouble with was chopping the fresh rosemary. I think my knife may not have been sharp enough. Anyway, this is the finished product:

Honestly I found it to be disappointing. And it's probably the cheese's fault. Husband liked it more than I did, giving it 3 stars. I give it 2. I doubt I'll be using this recipe again, but it did give me confidence to try a different mac and cheese recipe in the future because it was so simple.