Name: Barbecue Sausage Mac and Cheese
Ingredients: 1 box macaroni and cheese; 2 cans Vienna sausage; barbecue sauce (to taste); 2 cups water

Barbecue Sausage Mac & Cheese

Boil 2 cups of water and add the pasta from the mac and cheese box. Stir well to release starch.

Drain the broth from the 2 cans of Vienna sausages and reserve the liquid.
Slice the sausages into rings.
Place sausages in a cold pan, then turn the heat to medium. Brown them for a minute, then stir/flip. Remove from the pan once browned.

Reduce heat to low. Add 1 tbsp of the reserved sausage broth and 1 tbsp of pasta water to the pan.
Deglaze the pan by scraping the bottom to pick up flavor.
Add 2-3 tbsp of barbecue sauce and mix.
Add 1 tbsp of the cheese sauce (from the mac and cheese box) and incorporate until the mixture has a mustard-like color.
Return sausages to the pan and mix.
Add the remainder of the reserved broth and let it reduce (evaporate). Mash the sausages for texture if desired.
Remove from pan.

In the same pan, add the strained cooked pasta. Mix to coat with the remaining pan flavor.
Add another 1 tbsp of barbecue sauce and the remainder of the cheese sauce pack. Mix well.
Serve the pasta in a bowl topped with the sausage mixture and an extra splash of barbecue sauce.