Classic Amish Style Macaroni Salad: Noreen's Kitchen

I'm ready I'm gonna read and welcome to my kitchen and a new episode of what's for dinner but this is going to go on the side we're going to throw some pork chops on the grill tonight that I have marinating there right there I did those in another video and uh last week I've got it been just last week but I've kind of been over the course of the time I've been with Rick kind of developing a macaroni salad that he really liked now when I was growing up my mom made macaroni salad and had macaroni and it had salt and pepper and mayonnaise and maybe a chopped hick that's it and that's fine I don't care for our miracle with a whole lot and Rick sometimes we like to get the deli macaroni salad but I find that it leaves that really nasty kind of aftertaste in my mouth and I don't like that so I finally came up with a macaroni salad that we all enjoy that doesn't have Miracle Whip in it and it has the flavors that we like it's a little bit sweet but not too much and a little bit tangy but not too much and it's just creamy enough to make everybody happy the only one in the house who won't eat it is mica and she's a big poop head so it doesn't matter not freak anyway it's true so what I've done and I wanted to show you this I've cooked two cups that says two cups dry that I've prepared now I'm gonna you know you want your macaroni to be cool you don't want to mix this together when it's hot and now my glasses are all futile that's quite all right now and this my mom always did this run your cold water and yes if you have a spray attachment on your sink get the cold water going toss some ice in there and then kind of get your hands in there and toss that ice around now this will allow the macaroni to cool down almost instantly it just takes a minute or two and it will be perfect for a macaroni salad so we get this going and this is just a nice little tip I know a lot of people probably already do this but you know what I have a lot of new homemakers I have a lot of young cooks who email me all the time and tell me that they really like watching my videos and that they've learned a lot for me and I am very happy to know that because I think it's important that everybody cook for themselves no matter how simple it is and it's very true you won't go there ok so then really what you want to do is you want to come through and pick out right you know I may have put just a little bit too much ice in there but it doesn't matter pick out the big chunks of ice and have it melts it all the way down because my macaroni just slowly cooled off and it's not going to coat it if you leave a piece of - air really okay so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bring my pot over here because I am just gonna go ahead and prepare my macro and stuff in my pot the white house you Bobby ah life is never boring in my house all right now now let's make the dressing hmm come on we got this way we're just gonna have to wait all right okay our dressing first anyway oh yeah I didn't pull these things out and I should have you're gonna want some mayonnaise some apple cider vinegar some sugar and on for seasoning I'm gonna use celery salt onion powder garlic powder and um celery seed not celery salt then I say celery salt I don't even have any we have silver salt I don't know and some cracked black pepper and I'm kind of bunched up over here and I apologize for that but okay let's see when we get a scraper one a cup of mayonnaise now it's 2 cups of macaroni cup of mayonnaise now again I understand that everybody may already know how to make macaroni salad really how hard could it be right but I'll say it again that I have a lot of young homemakers just like cat's cradle did a video the other day about cleaning your kitchen tools and making sure that they don't have any extra gunk on them and I have to tell you that was an awesome video um how many people think about that I'll put a link to that video below here I know it's not about macaroni salad but nonetheless carefully using that bowl what no I'm just using this bowl to mix the dressing okay that's all trust me honey it's okay let's see you've done this I have done this before now I'm gonna go ahead and put the macaroni in this pot it all grab a tablespoon just so I have something to stir with okay and this is one of those times where you're going to see me measure let's put and I I have tested this so I know it's just right we want the tablespoon of sugar so it's not too much and we want two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and this is one of my old olive oil bottles and because I buy my cider vinegar and my white vinegar in gallon sized bottles I just you can't add some into this bottle so I could keep it on my kitchen counter and it works very nicely and now we're just going to mix this up and it will incorporate we tell it's nice and smooth so new to this it doesn't matter but what I'm going to do is pick up the ball a slice it felony book those on my toes alright now we're going to eyeball things let's put in some celery seed and we won't do it the way I did it last week when I made potato salad I didn't realize there was no shaker top that was a little scary and we'll bang the onion powder and we'll shake it gently it takes about a half a teaspoon of the celery seed about half a teaspoon of the onion powder and garlic powder about the same about a half a teaspoon and the same of salt I'm using Himalayan pink salt and the same of cracked black pepper it's about twenty blinds really just like that we'll mix it in there then we'll paste it perfect just give up storage for all the micro I'm positive you don't need a ton as I said it's 2 cups of cooked Mac macaroni coach is 4 cups this 2 cups dry is 4 cups cooked and 1 cup of mayonnaise plus all the seasonings is plenty you didn't complain last week when I made it for you this is exactly how I made it when we head here is 1/2 cup each finely diced onion celery bell green bell pepper and red bell pepper we'll go ahead and put this right in here I found out slider like blueberries loves blueberries they're not gonna pepper I did actually cook a couple of eggs in with my macaroni but I'm not gonna put one in here if you want to put chopped egg in here this would be the time to do it uh-huh do you want shopped egg he wants to chop de all right I think they do too we can chop who then whoo oh oh oh are are our guests yes them well let's see the eggs are hot so see how they look at that tomorrow we live indeed okay anything you know what if I had wanted to make things it would ever have done that if I was gonna do it on purpose that I could have fallen apart in my niche yes I know my water is running all right don't let baggage shrunken click a little bit all right now I'll have my handy he did any ink slicer will slice it that way your invaluable will slice it this way will have chopped egg look at that yolk place that way get out put it in the other direction slice it that way it's chopped up big right it's not rocket science brain surgery or rocket surgery or brain science all right then let's put our dressing on top here now just toss this around see that's plenty of dressing you want to taste this Molly I'm gonna taste it on camera okay all right well let Molly give it to taste see if it's just right go for you go you could show her mm-hmm here Batman sure you're a Batman shirt it's good okay awesome look well there you have it there's a simple classic sort of Amish style macaroni salad perfect for your next summer get-together or cool summer dinner I hope you try this and I hope you enjoy it and until next time you

Channel: Noreen's Kitchen

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Length: 13min 59sec (839 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 04 2012