Sometimes the side dish steals the show, and at The Redneck BBQ Lab in Benson, the jalapeño mac and cheese is doing exactly that.
This isn’t your grandmother’s mac and cheese, unless your grandmother was a competition pitmaster with a wild streak and a love of spicy, creamy, absolutely indulgent comfort food.
Mac and cheese at barbecue joints is usually an afterthought, something to fill space on the plate between the meat and the coleslaw.
It’s often bland, sometimes gummy, occasionally straight from a box with delusions of grandeur…