macaroni salad

How To Make macaroni salad

• 1

  Bring 8 cups of water to a roiling boil, add a pinch of salt and a T of olive oil - add noodles, and cook until tender (20 min for whole wheat, less for white noodles)
• 2

  While noodles are cooking, chop celery, mince sun-dried tomatoes and slice half a can of black olives. Set aside.
• 3

  Drain noodles when done. Do not wash them.
• 4

  Pour cooked noodles into a salad bowl, and add the cream cheese. Stir until completely dispersed into noodles.
• 5

  Add all other ingredients but paprika and stir evenly until salad is well mixed.
• 6

  Sprinkle paprika on top of salad sparingly.
• 7

  Chill for several hours before serving. Stir when you are about to serve the salad.
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