On Wed 27 Aug 2008 12:22:29p, Serene Vannoy told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Serene, did you ever get around to making that *unusual* macaroni salad
>> that you bought the ingredients for? If you posted the results, I
>> obviously missed it, but am very curious about it.
>>
>
> Hi, Wayne. Yes, I did. I posted pics of the ingredients on abf and
> posted about it here, but I never got around to photographing the
> results.

Thanks, Serene. I did see your pics of the ingredients on abf, but guess I
missed your post here about the results. Sorry.

> My family agreed with me on my assessment -- it's not really any sweeter
> than the average grocery-store macaroni salad, which is usually a bit
> too sweet for me, but it was definitely not inedible. And the dressing,
> which seems like it would be way too much for that amount of macaroni,
> all soaks in, so the salad isn't all goopy. Also, I do think the
> dressing would make a decent fruit-salad dressing on its own, or the
> base of poppyseed dressing, but I wouldn't bother because I like my
> poppyseed dressing, and the one I make is easier.

Your results are good to know. I would fully have expected it to be overly
sweet and overly "liquidy". I can see where in might make a good fruit
salad dressing, in that case.

I love poppy seed dressing, but have never made it myself. The recipes
I've seen didn't look all that appealing.

> James doesn't like macaroni salad at its best, so he just had that one
> taste-tester bite, but the teenager and I ate it as a side dish for a
> few days before we got tired of it. The recipe makes a TON of salad. I
> think the container I kept it in is 10 1/2 cups.

That's a *lot* of macaronia salad! Probably wise to cut it down, or take
it to a large gathering.

> Serene

Thanks for your followup!

--
Wayne Boatwright

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