{"id":17353,"date":"2022-01-05T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:19:29","slug":"home-cooking-at-cafe-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/home-cooking-at-cafe-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Home cooking at Cafe Mac\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can find dishes from all over the world in our dining hall, Cafe Mac. Our chefs&nbsp; make crave-worthy dishes \u2014 built on whole grains, deep-color vegetables, fresh fruits, and lean or plant-based proteins \u2014 that people look forward to eating every day. But with a little ingenuity, you can create your own tasty recipes, too. Below, the Class of 2021 shares some of their favorite Cafe Mac creations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"videoWrapper video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RsKeC1vF31Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mac-uccino &#8230; and chilly fries<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cafe mac coffee with a little soft-serve. Also, on chilly day, put chili on curly fries and top with cheese.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Maddie Alqatami&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Cafe Mac Egg Salad<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hard boiled egg from salad bar<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ayo from the sandwich bar<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mustard from the sandwich bar<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salt and pepper from the tables<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructions: Mix and consume<br><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014Emmy Curtiss<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Cinnamon toast with a twist<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Cafe Mac secret recipe: naan, honey, and cinnamon sugar<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>\u2014Tate Nelson Munnich<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Ice cream sundae<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make an ice cream sundae with the waffle toppings in Cafe Mac when it\u2019s breakfast for dinner! And if you want, make a waffle too!! It makes a fun dessert!<br><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211;Julia Michaela Record&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Tendies<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Order chicken tenders at the grille and ask for no side: you&#8217;ll get more tendies.<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014Robert Shepetin<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Cafe Mac and Cheese<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Milk; plain pasta (pasta bar);<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">butter + cream cheese (salad bar);<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LOTS of cheese (the grille + salad bar).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Microwave the pasta with butter and milk (2-3 minutes) then add in the rest of the ingredients. The residual heat will perfectly melt the cheese!<br><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014from the mind of Yoonjin Shu&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Class of 2021 shares some of their favorite Cafe Mac creations.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","mediatype-videos"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[2],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30655,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions\/30655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}