Category: Food

Hawaiian Macaroni Salad

Reproducing this recipe from the website “inspired2cook.com” which doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Here’s a link to the WaybackMachine if you want to see the original.

Ingredients

These will be used throughout the recipe

  • 2 Cups Whole Milk (not low-fat because it makes the dressing too thin)
  • 2 Cups Mayonnaise (not low-fat because it makes the dressing too thin)
  • 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • 1 pound Elbow Macaroni
  • 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 4 green onions, sliced thin
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and grated
  • 1 celery rib, chopped fine
  • Salt & Pepper

Make Dressing

Whisk the following in a bowl:

  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 Tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons pepper

Cook Pasta

Bring 4 quarts of water to boil in a large pot. Add 1 tablespoon salt and the pasta and cook for about 15 minutes.

Make Salad Step 1

  1. Drain the pasta and transfer to a suitable sized bowl
  2. Mix 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar into the pasta
  3. Cool Pasta – I usually cover it and put it in the fridge for about an hour
  4. Stir about half the dressing into the pasta
  5. Cool Completely – I usually cover it and put it in the fridge overnight

Make Salad Step 2

Add the following ingredients to the cooled salad and stir

  • the remaining half of the dressing
  • 4 Green Onions, sliced thin
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and grated
  • 1 celery rib, chopped fine
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • up to 1 cup mayonnaise (play around with this, could be you don’t want any, depends on how you want the consistency of the salad)
  • Salt and Pepper (to your liking, I usually grind bunch of pepper over the top so that the top is nicely speckled ?)

Taco Bell Removes the Enchirito from Menu

**EDIT 09/20/2013 **

I recently went back to Taco Bell. As it turns out they have put the Enchirito back on the menu. When I asked why, they told me that a lot of people were unhappy and wanted it back. So good work people!

**END EDIT**

Oh Taco Bell. You have done this to me before and you are doing it to me again. When are you going to learn that taking things off your menu is a BAD thing? It is especially bad when you “take” something off the menu and replace it with the same thing albeit more expensive.

A couple of years ago Taco Bell removed the Nacho Cheese Chalupa from it’s menu. (It was probably a couple of years ago although it could’ve been more recently). This made me mad. Let me tell you what I say when I order from Taco Bell. “Hi Taco Bell Person, I’d like 2 bean burritos, a Nacho Cheese Chalupa and an Enchirito”. That’s it! That is what I always had. So imagine my surprise when one day I say my normal order and the response from the other end is “We don’t sell Nacho Cheese Chalupas anymore.” And so I said, “What?…”.

What?...
What?…

Well that was a bad day. But I quickly learned how to get around it by being a super annoying customer. That’s right, my future orders went a little like this.

I’d like two bean burritos, a Nacho Cheese Chalupa, and an Enchirito please.
We don’t sell Nacho Cheese Chalupa’s anymore.
Oh really…? Hrmmm. Well then I would like a Supreme chalupa with no sour cream.
No sour cream?
Yes. No sour cream. Oh and can you add Nacho Cheese to that too?
A Supreme Chalupa with no sour cream and nacho cheese?
Yes.

So, in case you are wondering how to get a Nacho Cheese Chalupa, that’s how.

So… same story no happy ending yet. Today I go to Taco Bell and I order my order. This time they say “We don’t sell enchiritos anymore”. And so I said “What?…”

What?...
What?…

So, as it turns out, they are selling Enchiritos, they’ve just renamed them and made them more expensive. They are now called “Smothered Burritos” and they come with Sourcream on them in addition to the normal stuff. Can you say argggggg? I can. You should try it, I think you probably could.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks it’s LAME to rename an item on your menu and make it more expensive. Then again I guess they can do what they want to do… be stupid.