This recipe was found from Aaron McCargo JR, the Next Food Network Star. His show is actually pretty decent. After watching it I attempted this Macaroni Salad.

Please remember that 2 pounds is a lot of noodles, which I found out the hard way. If you want to make the recipe as is, I would suggest two pots for noodles, and a lot of refrigerator space to cool the noodles.

Mega Egga Macaroni Salad Recipe

If you just want to try the recipe, I would suggest using half of everything. The full two pounds will serve a lot of people, and then some!

Ingredients

2 pounds elbow noodles
12 hard boiled eggs, peeled and diced
1/2 onion, finely diced
4 celery stalks, finely diced
3 cups heavy mayonnaise
2 tablespoons salt
1 teaspoon coarsely cracked black pepper
Dash of hot sauce
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup pickle relish (optional, I didn’t use this)

Directions

In a large pot with salt, boil pasta for 12 to 15 minutes until cooked. Stir often. Drain and cool. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Cooking Tip: I would try putting the pasta on a large cooking sheet or something similar. Keeping it in a bowl will only cool the noodles on top, the ones at the middle and bottom will stay warm.

In a large pot with a dash of salt, add eggs on medium high heat. Bring to a boil. Cover and remove from heat. Let eggs sit for 6 to 7 minutes. Remove eggs and shock in ice water. Once thoroughly cooled, peel eggs and roughly dice.

Cooking Tip: This is the perfect method to boiling eggs. They came out very well cooked when I did this. I even made more just to eat hard boiled eggs alone.

Place pasta in a large bowl. Add onions, celery, eggs, relish, mayonnaise, salt and pepper, hot sauce and Worcestershire. Mix until well combined.