Happy Monday! Don’t you just love summer time? Long hours of daylight to play outside, swim, eat snow cones, having cookouts with friends and enjoy the warm weather! This past weekend we were invited to a party and I was asked to bring a salad. Since it’s summer I decided to throw together a macaroni salad using The Pioneer Woman’s recipe.
It was light, tangy, sweet, and had a real zip! Unlike so many other macaroni salads, it wasn’t smothered with mayonnaise and it didn’t call for celery and red onion. I used Wickles Pickles in the salad which are AWESOME. If you have never had Wickles, you really must try them. They are sweet at first but then pack a punch of heat at the end! I use them to do fried pickles and they really stand apart from the ordinary bread-and-butter pickle.
| Macaroni Salad |
Recipe type: side, salad
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Ingredients
- 4 cups Elbow Macaroni
- 3 whole Roasted Red Peppers, Chopped (Can Also Use Pimentos)
- 1/2 cup Black Olives, Chopped Fine
- 1/2 cup Diced Wickles Pickles
- 3 whole Green Onions, Sliced (white And Dark Green Parts)
- 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
- 1 Tablespoon Red Wine Or Distilled Vinegar
- 3 teaspoons Sugar, More Or Less To Taste
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt, More To Taste
- Plenty Of Black Pepper
- 1/4 cup Milk (more If Needed)
- Splash Of Pickle Juice (spicy Sweet Pickles)
- Extra Pickle Juice To Taste
Instructions
- Cook the macaroni in lightly salted water according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool. Set aside.
- Mix together mayo, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper. Splash in enough milk to make it pourable. Splash in pickle juice for extra flavor. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Set aside.
- Place cooled macaroni in a large bowl and pour 3/4 of the dressing. Toss and add more dressing if you’d like. (Dressing will seem a little thin, but it will thicken up as salad chills.)
- Stir in olives, roasted red peppers (or pimentos), pickles, and green onions. Add more of any ingredient if you’d like more stuff going on! At the end, splash in a little more pickle juice and stir.
- Chill for at least 2 hours before serving. Sprinkle with sliced green onion to serve!
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Yum!!