Ralph,
nope, no rolling of the “r” in macaron, its like Navarone, in the “Guns of Navarone”, only Macarone, LOL. Kinda like Italian “Pidgin English”.
I love Macaroni Salad and I make mine like my paternal grandma. I always use salad macaroni, finely diced celery, yellow onions, sliced black olives, pimentos, sweet pickle relish, mayonnaise, sour cream, parsley, black pepper and little salt and I boil the macaroni until its really tender, this way its already saturated with water and doesn’t absorb all the dressing and get dry. I like it to be really moist.
Another salad that my Mom and her Mom used to make was Pork and Bean Salad. I know it sounds nasty, but its delightful!
You use Van de Camps Pork and Beans, that you rinse well in a colander and drain, taking out any pieces of salt pork. Place them in a large bowl with finely diced celery, yellow onion and sweet gherkin pickles, crisp bacon pieces, a couple of chopped hard boiled eggs, parsley and ground black pepper. Toss lightly with mayonnaise and sour cream, being careful to not break up the beans. Let it it set for a couple of hours, overnight is better.
You have to use the canned Van de Camps Pork and Beans, its the tomato sauce they are canned in that gives them a special tang that you can’t really duplicate with just cooked navy beans.
It is out of this world! When I was telephone operator in the 70’s I took it to a potluck. My co workers said, “Whats this?” I said try it you’ll really like it. Well that 6 quart bowl was the first potluck item to disappear, they couldn’t get enough of it.
Just use the amounts of each item like you would making either Macaroni or Potato salad, and season it to your liking.
My husband David loves all these kinds of salads that I make. When I was a little kid in the pre-Tupperware 50’s, Grandma used to save the cardboard 1/2 gal ice cream containers, after washing them out and letting them dry. Then when we went on picnics she would pack the salads into these containers for carrying the salad to the picnic site. Lots of great memories of those salads and the Little Brown Jug of ice cold homemade Lemonade.
Eddie