Baked Mac & Cheese with Crispy Bread Crumbs

With cauliflower, because vegetables

As I was sitting by the fire last night lamenting about the sun setting at 4:45, I had an unrelenting craving for mac & cheese. I didn’t grow up in a mac & cheese household — I don’t think I tasted the Kraft version until I was well into my 20s. Once a year, my mom would make Martha Stewart’s baked mac & cheese, which always felt like a special occasion…