MeMe’s Recipes | Macaroni Salad

Macaroni Salad… there a million recipes, but this one is easy and so tasty!!! This salad is good with any meal! Add some meat and it can easily become a meal. #memesrecipes #memesrecipessc #shineforjesus #macaronisalad #macaronisaladrecipe #salads

Welcome to Mimi’s kitchen oh y’all it is a dreary day today but I don’t know what it’s a nice day to be in the kitchen and it’s a good day to be in the kitchen to be out of the rain cuz I’ve been out in that rain this morning let me tell you

It is a mess y’all today we’re going to make something very light and tasty and it is macaroni salad right here in the brand new cookbook Mondays with Mimi and it’s on page uh nine now y’all this can be adjusted you know that about a million recipes for macaroni salad and you can

Just about put anything in any of them to tell you the truth you can just about clean your refrigerator out actually if you want to when you make macaroni salad and so today we just have several ingredients that we’re going to use and if you say oh that is too big for my

Family well cut it down down y’all just don’t make as much this is one of those that you can do as little or as much as you like but listen this is great it’s a side salad and it will just go with any meal that you’re having so KK let’s get

Started hey y’all you need a one lb box of elbow macaroni or any kind of pasta for that matter you can use bow tie hey if you live on the coast and this summer when we’re down there we’ll use the shells or you can use the rotini you

Know whatever you would like um fancy it up y’all make it look pretty so um but just aare prepare it right there according to the instructions on the box very easy you just boil it till it’s done that’s that’s all it is to it so that’s not very hard so we’ve got that

Part ready and then the next thing that we’re going to add are our vegetables now y’all you know how I love a shortcut so my local grocery store they cut the vegetables up for you oh y’all that is so wonderful because you don’t have to you know come home and do all

That yourself so um this calls for a cup of the frozen peas and then for one cup of celery one cup of your red onion and one cup of red red pepper which today we are using orange pepper they didn’t even have those Peppers cut

Up today so I’m going to have to do that on my own for y’all that are wondering how you cut it listen that’s all you do just cut them up okay you don’t need to watch that whole process so we going to cut all that up and we’ll get all that ready and

Then a cup of cheese of choice it says today I chose cheddar because that’s what I had I want to let y’all know when I was talking about grocery stores uh the one that I use here in town is singles they have the best choice of the

Most vegetables cut up and you may have one in your area that does the same thing but boy I’m going to tell you it is a wonderful service and a shortcut when you preparing anything that calls for diced vegetables all right y’all we going to put all this now in a big bowl

And this is our macaroni um we had to break it up just a little bit it’s been sitting there while I was waiting on KK y’all okay now let’s go over this again that is a cup of The Red Onion mhm a cup of the orange pepper a cup of

Celery oh y’all let is that pretty mhm a cup of frozen peas and a cup of cheese y’all we just going guesstimate this oh it’s looking pretty okay oh I got to use the rest of that package y’all okay all right now what we’re going to do we’re going to

Toss all this until these are well acquainted with one another I’m going to use the best utensil in my kitchen y’all that’s my hands God made them for me to use and I’m going to use them now y’all this is a big salad but now you know I

Have a big family and it is one of those salads if it sits 2 or 3 days oh the longer it sits the better it gets so oh y’all look isn’t that pretty okay y’all here’s how you make the dressing we’re going to use one cup of Dukes mayonnaise

34 of a cup of sugar let’s pour that in there let’s just mix that a little bit this is a four of cup of your apple cider vinegar and yes for those that question you do need to use apple sourer vinegar it’s just the flavor that you need to

Complete the taste that we are trying to get here the next thing we’re going to add is two tablespoons of this dill weed so let’s that’s very generous very generous okay and then two tablespoons of Deon mustard y’all had to buy that I didn’t have Deon mustard so we just go guesstimate that

You think that’s two tablespoons KK I think it is sure okay all right we going to get this stuff here acquainted with one another okay y’all ooo y’all that smells good I guess it’s that vinegar and all that stuff yeah okay all right now let’s just mix all this stuff

Together well I’m going tell you if you go into something at your church and you need to carry a big dish this be the one you need to make okay y’all I’m going to cover this now and I’m going to refrigerate it it needs to chill for several hours and can actually chill

Overnight and I was telling you you know it would be a good dish for you to take to church well speaking of church yesterday and our church we were celebrating our pastor’s 20th anniversary he’s been with us for 20 years y’all and so the choir was doing several special things and the first

Song that we were doing is a real upbeat song well Collins you’ve seen him here he’s nearly four he knows that song by heart and he loves it and he asks his mama please can I sing and so we said we got permission yeah he can sing with the

Choir and y’all he did great he sang every bit of it he clapped when he was supposed to well when that song was over it came time to escort him out and that was kind of a tricky thing so we looked around and Katrina was his grandmother

Was supposed to get him so she was trying to get his attention and she crawled up the steps which we didn’t think anybody could see her but we have a balcony in our church and so that was several people that got a real kick out of Katrina crawling up the steps trying

And she was like come on come on you know so then she caught us attention and and he did he went on out and that was the end of that well that brought to mind another story y’all we had this young man that came to the church and my husband was

Working there and um this young man wanted to have a church wedding but they just didn’t have any money and he just asked him sir is there any anything that y’all could do to help me to have a little church wedding well my husband volunteered my services so KK and I got

Busy and we thought you know we’ve got to help this young boy and so we gathered up a bunch of ferns we did everything we could to get the place you know looking nice we had a couple of weeks notice y’all so we could get everything together so we did we got it

Together and it came time for the wedd weding you know and so we directed it we did everything um the lady at our church that plays the organ was working in the music department she came out and she played The Wedding March oh y’all it was

It was really nice I mean we were real proud of ourselves so KK and I were standing at the back of the church everything’s all perfect everybody’s down there ready for the vows well we looked and y’all we were using the unity camera which is three candles

Two of them are lit which is the husband and the wife and then the one in the middle they light together that show they are becomeing one that’s great except we looked up and all of a sudden we realized the two candles they were supposed to be using

Were burning down real close I guess we didn’t estimate our time probably didn’t use the right kind of candles we just grabed what we had you know so I looked at K I said oh k k what are we going to do I said here here’s some extra candles

I said you run around to the back of the church and come in the back door and then you do the best you can you’ll have to crawl under the piano to get to those candles so she went flying around the church and I said and um and then when

They turn around to come to the candle you just say and handle the candles then they going to have to light those candles and then light the candles in the middle y’all can you imagine their feeling when they turned around and there she is under the piano with two

Candles oh y’all we get ourselves into some kind of pickles I’m going to tell you but hey they had a church wedding they were happy nobody really exactly knew cuz we had the ferns that kind of covered KK up so oh my goodness y’all it

Was a good it was a good time y’all this salad has ch killed and now we have tried it and let me tell you it is good I just love the little sweet flavor to it the crunch of the vegetables and then the noodles all of it is just makes for

A wonderful side salad now it makes so much you’ll probably have some left over so in a few days just add you some meat to it and hey you’ve got a meal y’all I started thinking when we were on the coast I believe what I’m going to do is

I’m going to use the shell pasta make this and then I’m going to add shrimp to it that sounds good y’all I think I’m going to have to have just one more Taste of this just to make sure it’s as good as I told you

That it was so y’all have a good rest of the week and everybody remember Shine for Jesus