Lizzy Lou's Dad Here

Hi everyone,  I am posting on my daughter's page to let her know just how much I love her and how amazing she is.

Today,  We are making macaroni salad.  The problem is that most macaroni salads call for pickles. As Lizzy's mother has discovered through her research, unless it is sea salt, there is not guarantee that the salt used to make pickles does not have some corn additive included. The other problem with pickles it that distilled white vinegar is made from corn.  So unless we make our own pickles, we run into not knowing what kind of vinegar was used or what kind of salt.    Maybe making pickles will be another experiment.

One of the things that is happening at our house is learning how to adjust recipes to meet Lizzy's dietary restrictions.  And so we are making up our own macaroni salad recipe.    Lizzy will have to tell you if it takes good.

First we took some Rice-based macaroni noodles and prepared them according to the directions.

 Then in a separate bowl we added our homemade Mayonnaise.

 We added some red wine vinegar

 We added some dry mustard

 And some Dill

 We added some Brown Sugar

 Added Salt and Pepper

 We roasted some red peppers and diced them.

 We also diced up celery

 Our Finished Product...

Recipe
In a small bowl mix the following:
3/4 C Homemade Mayo
1 T Red Wine Vinegar
2 t Dry Mustard
3 T Dill
4 t brown sugar
1/2 t salt - we added more salt in the end to taste.
1/4 t pepper.

Let sit for 30 min at least.

In a larger bowl add cooled macaroni along with:
3 diced roasted peppers (we only had one on hand)
3 celery stalks - diced
3 whole green onions, diced (we didn't have any so we used dried chives)... hey, it worked.

We don't like olives... well, take that back.... Lizzy's dad does not like olives, so I refuse to put them in anything. But if you like olives.... then, put 'em in.

Then add the dressing and stir.  Chill until ready to serve.



By the way... Lizzy said it was good.