A meal or with a meal

[AZsix]

I make macaroni salad using elbow macaroni, immitation crab and mayonaise. You serve it cold and can serve it with a meal or make it a meal by itself. We love having it on hot days as a meal when we don't feel like firing the oven or stove up. I haven't taken it camping yet but plan to in two weeks on our Grand Canyon trip.

[tlhdoc]

It sounds easy enough to make, but I don't like sea food so I will pass on it.

[Shepherd]

I make macaroni salad using elbow macaroni, immitation crab and mayonaise. You serve it cold and can serve it with a meal or make it a meal by itself. We love having it on hot days as a meal when we don't feel like firing the oven or stove up. I haven't taken it camping yet but plan to in two weeks on our Grand Canyon trip.

You guys can slap my hand with a ruler since this isn't a recipe   , but if you have a Costco membership, check out their Sonoma Chicken salad.  I don't like nuts at all and this has pecans in it, but it is still awesome. You can eat it on a sandwich or as a main course, either way you'll want seconds.

AZsix, I'm still living vicariously through you so keep those GC trip details coming.

[vjm1639]

I make macaronni salad as a meal too, but I ususally put crumbled bacon and diced ham in ours along with a ton of other veggies....carrots, green pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever I have on hand.  I like to add half mayo and half ranch dressing too.  Season with Nature's Seasoning blend and it's a hit.  We don't like the imitation crab. DH grew up in Baltimore so its real crab or none for him ;>

[daldricht]

This is really not linked to the macaroni salad, but instead about cooking pans in the popup. We have a large cast iron Dutch oven - but we are discovering that the electric wok has saved us a couple times for potluck suppers. We started out one afternoon, thinking we left plenty of time to prepare and cook shishkabobs but discovered things were cooking way too slow. So dragged the electric wok out, slid all the contents of the kabobs into the wok, added a couple cups of rice and beef stock and VOILA had beef&rice for 20 in about 15 minutes.
We also got caught with 2 pot luck suppers on Memorial Weekend and managed to thin slice a steak, pan cook it in the wok, made a rouge gravy with beef stock, and boiled some butter noodles and again had enough to serve 20.

My comment about the faux crab meat macaroni salad . . . if I am not mistaken, seafood is good for us, and aren't you worth spending a few extra bucks to buy the real thing? Maybe the price of crab is too much to fling into mayonnaise (I do not eat shell fish) so have no idea of the cost factor, but I do know that I do not skrimp on fish products so that my family gets the full advantage of good fish. For a group potluck would possibly do the faux stuff, but for the family they get the real stuff.

With the crazy weather we are having in the VA area, it is getting hard to find decent weekends to camp and come home with horror stories of high winds, torrential rains and cold fronts.
Hope you are having a great summer of camping!
Dave

[AZsix]

My comment about the faux crab meat macaroni salad . . . if I am not mistaken, seafood is good for us, and aren't you worth spending a few extra bucks to buy the real thing? Maybe the price of crab is too much to fling into mayonnaise (I do not eat shell fish) so have no idea of the cost factor, but I do know that I do not skrimp on fish products so that my family gets the full advantage of good fish. For a group potluck would possibly do the faux stuff, but for the family they get the real stuff.

With the crazy weather we are having in the VA area, it is getting hard to find decent weekends to camp and come home with horror stories of high winds, torrential rains and cold fronts.
Hope you are having a great summer of camping!
Dave

I often wondered what imitation crab-meat was made out of. One night while watching a show about fishing in the north Atlantic I found out. It turns out that it's a certain type of fish that is mixed with some flavoring to make it taste like crab so you are still getting "real" seafood. It's just not real crab. We like the taste of it in the salad so why spend the extra bucks when I don't have to. With the way things are now a days I need to save every penny I can!