BRANFORD — Gordon Chalue is carrying on his family tradition of making homemade macaroni and cheese every single day.
“My friends used to come over and just want mac and cheese,” he said. “They’d come over and my grandmother would make mac and cheese for everybody.”
“We had mac and cheese every day,” he said, referring to his childhood. “Whatever else we had went with it.”
This tradition will be shared at the Stony Creek Brewery Mac & Cheese Fest, from noon to 6 p.m., Sunday, June 11, 5 Indian Neck Ave., Branford.
“It’s one of those foods that everybody loves,” said Dylan Lintern, vice president of business development for the Stony Creek Brewery.
“It’s comfort food,” he said. “It touches a lot of people’s hearts, it’s an easy food to like.”
Seven food trucks are scheduled for the festival, including Bake, Bake, Hooray; Crispy Melty by Caseus; Get Stuffed Food Truck; Joey C’s BBQ & Burger Food Truck; La Cucina; Naples Pizza Truck; and Shoreline Prime Meats & Deli.
All chefs will be serving up their own creations incorporating mac and cheese.
There is the creamy, cheesy casserole piled on top of a burger, heaped atop 18-hour, slow cooked pulled pork and steak tips or “you can just get plain mac and cheese,” from Shoreline Prime Meats & Deli, Chalue said.
Chalue is the owner of Shoreline Prime Meats & Deli’s food trucks and catering operation, in addition to being the chef for all the prepared food available at the Branford storefront.
He creates his signature dish with seven different cheeses and heavy cream, exactly the way his grandmother did. He never strays from the original recipe.
“Everybody loves it,” he said. “Everybody in town, they come here and the first thing they ask is, “Do you have any of that mac and cheese?”
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