Noodle Egg Salad with fresh chives / working with left overs

 I'm Craving Egg Salad but no bread to spread my egg salad on

No worries... I will just take the ingredients I have and make a noodle egg salad with it. That should still satisfy my craving for the taste of mayonnaise egg salad. 

I have plenty of chives on the patio, so I've chopped up plenty of that. In fact, it's been a full day of working with my chives. I spent much of my time watching the bees and butterfly's enjoying the pretty purple blooms. I had to take photos of the whole magical moment. I think I will save the shots for a future video. Giggle~ 

My brother gave me fresh eggs from his hens and fresh eggs always taste better, sadly he is getting rid of all his chickens he's had for a thousand years so no more fresh eggs for me. My oldest brother lives next door to me so I'm going to miss hearing those old roosters crowing each morning.

Now let's see what I have in my frig to work with. 

I have to say I'm not one who follows recipes. I mostly use what I've got and today is one of those days. Looks like I have mayonnaise, a tad bit of sour cream I need to use up, a 1/4 of cream cheese I need to use up and the bottom of the tub of yogurt I need to use up. I have plenty of boiled eggs now. I have plenty of chopped onions and chives. I have mustard but getting low. I have cayenne pepper I just picked off the vine so maybe I will chop up one of those. Oh there's what looks like 1/5 cup of grated cheddar cheese. I will get rid of that too. Wow, there's some capers! I forgot I had those! And... don't know what that is, better toss that out. And.... well no crackers or bread. But I do have noodles! Hummm... I think that's the making for a Noodle Egg Salad don't you? Wink~

Time to mix it up

Now all I have to do is cook up the noodles and mix it all together. I will let it rest for an hour or so to let the flavors mingle while I finish my chores and then I will be good and hungry for a simple lunch.

Making pasta salad is a great way to use up leftovers

It's really hard to mess up a noodle salad. It's almost fail safe. I like how most mayonnaise and cream base noodle salads can be eaten hot or cold just like a egg salad. Now this pasta salad has just as much boiled eggs in it as the pasta so the whole thing is a pretty yellow color with a few specks of red from the cayenne pepper and then the bright green color from the chives. It's pretty. 

But the best part is... using up all those left-over containers in the frig. "Yes" - The seasoning I used was simple. salt, pepper, garlic powder & a bit of celery flakes. I topped it with a bit of Avocado oil just because I love the stuff.

"Live everyday like a holiday". Pam

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📅 March / National Noodle Month

📅 October 6 / National Noodle Day

📅 November 26 / National Leftover Day

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► 🛒 ❤ Chives / https://amzn.to/3mOkzAj

► 🛒 ❤ Fresh Herbs / https://amzn.to/3xU7NH1

► 🛒 ❤ Fun Shape Pasta / https://amzn.to/3zDKy50

► 🛒 ❤ Regular Pasta / https://amzn.to/3aSfeVS

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How to cook Pesto Pasta

This video shows how to cook easy homemade pesto pasta with a list of ingredients. After it's cooked and mixed together you top with grated cheese. 

A perfect recipe to remember for Pasta Month, Pasta Day, Noodle Day, and herb week!! Ya-gotta-love those food holidays!
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Munch for Lunch Tuna Broccoli Pasta Salad

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2. Pasta salad is a dish prepared with one or more types of pasta, usually chilled, and most often tossed in a vinegar, oil or mayonnaise-based dressing. It is typically served as an appetizer or a main course.

Pasta

There are some days when a hot meal is way to much, especially when you've been gardening in the hot morning sun. That's when you go for a nice cooling lunch of fresh giant size grapes and a chilled pasta salad.

My Munch for Lunch today: Tuna Broccoli Pasta Salad

It rained like crazy this week and I've never been so glad to see the sun in all my life. ha ha- Don't get me wrong. I enjoy a few rain days where I can read and wrap up in a warm blanket but I can only stand to be stuck in the house for a couple of days. Last night the weather man said the sun was returning today so I knew exactly what I was going to be doing. Yep, that rain makes the weeds around the house grow like crazy so.... pulling weeds was my job for the day.

Since I knew I would be doing yard work, I cooked and mixed up my tuna broccoli noodle salad last night so it could chill over-night. I think the flavors always taste better if you let it mingle for several hours. I also knew I wanted something I could just spoon out of a bowl and be done with it. giggle~ So pasta salad was the easy choice.

I'm not fussy about my pasta salads.  I use what ever I've got in the frig that would make a filling meal. Today I had broccoli and tuna so that was the theme of my salad for today. 

Ingredients I used today:

• 1 cup of noodles
• 1 cup of broccoli
• 1/4 cup of diced onion
• Add noodles, broccoli & onions to pot. Boil according to noodle bag instructions. Drain
• Add in 1 can of drained tuna - salt and pepper to taste.

I'm a 1/4 cup kinda-girl when it comes to my noodle salads

• 1/4 cup of cream cheese (softened)
• 1/4 cup of sour cream
• 1/4 cup of grated cheese (what ever you have)
• 1/4 cup of mayonnaise

Add all to the bowl and mix. If you want to eat it while it's hot then now's the time to go for it. If you want to have it for a cold salad then put it in the frig to chill over night. wink~ by: Pam Svoboda
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When to eat this?

• When you need a easy food to pack for a picnic
• When you need a easy meal for your lunch box
• When you need a cold meal after a hot day in the sun.
• When you need to celebrate National Picnic Day!
• When you need to have a meal just for 1

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Holidays To Remember:
National Noodle Month - celebrated in March
National Picnic Month - celebrated in July
National Picnic Day - April 23

Old-Time Tuna Bake

Old-Time Tuna Bake
Originally uploaded by Pillsbury.com

October is National Pasta Month:

Tuna bake is one of my favorite pasta dishes so I wanted to be sure to post it in honor of National Pasta Month.  

There are hundreds of different shapes of pasta with at least locally recognised names. Examples include spaghetti (thin strings), maccheroni (tubes or cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagne (sheets). Gnocchi and spätzle are sometimes considered pasta; they are both traditional in parts of Italy.

Old-Time Tuna Bake

INGREDIENTS

• 4 cups uncooked wide egg noodles (8 oz)
• 1 1/2 cups Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers frozen sweet peas
• 1 can (10 3/4 oz) condensed cream of celery soup
• 1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk or 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
• 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 2 cans (5 oz each) tuna in water, drained, flaked
• 1 can (2.8 oz) French-fried onions

DIRECTIONS
1 .Cook noodles as directed on package, adding peas during last minute of cooking time; drain.
2. Meanwhile, heat oven to 350°F. In ungreased 2-quart casserole, mix soup, milk, dried onion and seasoned salt.
3. Stir cooked noodles and tuna into soup mixture. Cover; bake 30 minutes.
4. Uncover; stir mixture well. Sprinkle with French-fried onions. Bake uncovered about 5 minutes longer or until onions are golden brown.
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