Summer Picnic Macaroni Salad

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 lb salad macaroni (cooked)
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 4 sweet pickles, finely minced (baby gherkins)
• 1/2 cup diced celery
• 1/2 cup diced sweet onion
• 6 ounces albacore tuna in water, drained
• 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, cubed (about 1/4-inch pieces)
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• granulated sugar
• vinegar
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 drain the macaroni.
• 2 pour a mixture of 3 tablespoons vinegar and 2 tablespoons sugar over the drained (still in the colander) macaroni.
• 3 drain the macaroni (again).
• 4 in a large bowl mix salad macaroni, peas, baby gherkins, celery, sweet onion, tuna, cubed cheese.
• 5 dressing: take the mayo, sugar, some vinegar, salt and pepper to taste; mix into the macaroni mixture. you may want to add more dressing.
• 6 this is a very forgiving salad. you can sub salad shrimp, ham or chicken for the tuna or ditch the meat/fish and add some grated carrots (if using carrots you might want to cut back on the sweet pickles), diced zucchini and diced red peppers.
• 7 chill, check the dressing and enjoy.