6 not your macaroni salad Recipes

grated yellow sharp cheddar cheese, grated tillamook cheese (or your favorite mild cheddar.), elbow macaroni (or favorite tube pasta ... not salad macaroni!!), egg, slightly beaten, light cream or 3/4 cup half-and-half cream, softened butter (you won tsp be using all of it), salt & pepper

dry creamettes macaroni rings, cooked, drained and cooled, rotisserie chicken (or your own leftover chicken meat), cut into bite size pieces, stalks celery, sliced thinly, hard-boiled eggs, peeled and diced, miracle whip salad dressing (this is 1 recipe that mayonaisse just doesn tsp work as well as miracle whip, sugar, salt and pepper, to your taste (i like to add 1/4 tsp mccormick s montreal chicken spice), prepared yellow mustard (not a spicy mustard - just plain old yellow mustard), green or red seedless grapes , if desired

elbow macaroni, starkist chunk light tuna , in water (two packages, now you can use any brand, but i like this the best), black beans, rinsed and drained, red pepper, diced, yellow pepper, diced, celery ribs, diced fine, red onion, radish, thin diced, sliced black olives, fresh dill, chopped, fresh parsley, plain yogurt, mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, red pepper flakes, ground black pepper, kosher salt (to taste)

elbow macaroni, french dressing ( (not catalina style) or your own recipe), apples, cored and diced, lemon juice (fresh is best ), onion, minced, mayonnaise (use a good quality, such as hellmanns), paprika, for garnish