Bills Simple Macaroni Salad But Simply Delicious |
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This recipe takes time but is relatively easy to make - especially if you have a food processor: Start by cooking the macaroni and eggs in plenty of water. While I dice the peppers by hand to give them a great eye appeal, I put the green onions, medium onion and celery through a course disk of a food processor to get the vegetables done. Read more . Toss this into a BIG mixing bowl but do not clean out the food processor yet. The pasta and eggs should be done so you can cool them down with water. Putting a sharp blade in the procssor, add everything else but the shrimp and eggs. Process for 30 seconds. Peel and slice the eggs with an egg slicer and add to mixing bowl. Dump in the cooled macaroni and add the liquid from the processor. Next take 2 large mixing spoons and mix by digging down to the bottom with the spoons and pulling the salad up, turning over and mixing thoroughly. Pack into 4 large quart containers and put in the fridge overnight or at least several hours. Dump into serving bowl, and decorate with shrimp. Sprinkle with paprika and/or Old Bay Seasoning. Enjoy. Ingredients:
1 (16 ounce) package macaroni |
8 ea hard boiled eggs, chopped; or more or none |
2 red bell peppers, chopped |
1 green bell pepper, chopped; optional |
1 bunch chopped green onions |
1 ea onion, medium; diced |
5 stalk celery, diced (optional); or more |
1 ea parsley, 1/4 bunch; cut finely |
1 tablespoon olive oil |
1 cup mayonnaise |
1 cup buttermilk |
4 tbsp vinegar |
1 packet dry vegetable soup mix or more; onion soup optional |
shrimp for decoration with paprika |
1/4 cup relish |
4 ea parsley stems with leaves |
1/2 cup pickle juice |
1 tbsp. mustard djion type wet |
1 tablespoon celery salt |
1 tablespoon poatato salad seasoning salt |
Directions:
1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil with uncooked eggs in it. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente. Drain, and rinse with cold water until no longer hot. Transfer noodles to a large bowl.
2. Cool, peel and chop eggs and mix in chopped eggs with noodles.
3. Stir in red bell peppers, green bell peppers, green onions, onion, celery and olive oil. Mix in mayonnaise, vinegar and soup mix and rest of ingredients except shrimp and eggs. Refrigerate at least a few hours before serving. I wait overnight and add more buttermilk if dry.
4. Before decorating, check to see if pasta has absorbed all the liquid and add more buttermilk, if necessary, Decorate with shrimp and paprika or Old Bay before serving.
5. This recipe earns rave reviews!!!
6. The recipe is shared in memory of our beautiful white deaf cat, Barnaby, who was killed June 27, 2008, at 1 1/2 years of age.
7. Contributed by Bill Huebl July 18, 2008
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