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My Mom and Grandma also fixed goulash similar to this.and they left out the hamburger on another version.it was macaroni and tomatoes.always home canned tomatoescrushed and macaroni.still love it.I think my Grandma put garlic in just about everything she cooked.she lived to 89. Preheat oven to 350°. Cook macaroni according to package directions for al dente. Drain; return to pan. Stir in contents of cheese packets and sour cream. Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. In a small bowl, combine tomatoes and pizza sauce; drop by spoonfuls over macaroni. Top with peppers, cheese and pepperoni.

Old fashioned macaroni salad is the retro recipe that will remind you of growing up at Grandmas. Cue the big scoops on the side and lets get busy making this simple, but delicious, macaroni salad party side dish. Also a perfect salad for Thanksgiving, you cannot go wrong adding this one to the menu this holiday season.

Old Fashioned Macaroni Salad

This recipe version tastes like traditional macaroni salad. It’s a 10-15 minute salad, longer if you don’t have your pasta ready. You can also boil your pasta and cool a day before if you need to.

One thing about an old fashioned macaroni salad recipe is that everyone has an opinion. There are hoards of variations regarding this traditional side dish and what you like in it or on it is something that is continuously debated. Growing up I was exposed to just about every macaroni salad that you can imagine.

From tangy to sweet, every picnic, church function and family get together has included this aging staple. And why not? Wrapped up in delicious spices and mayo, the pasta in the macaroni salad is so creamy and delicious. Now this particular macaroni salad recipe is a basic version but its absolutely the best macaroni salad. It can be added and detracted from quite easily to make the recipe your own. Also, I know many do not love mustard, so you can leave that out if you like (we did leave it out for the video – it tastes great both ways!) Also a super easy way to get those eggs done is to check out my Ninja Foodi hard boiled eggs recipe – SO EASY!

• 4 cups cooked macaroni, about 2 cups dry
• 1 cup real mayonnaise
• 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
• 1/2 cup diced celery
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced and divided
• 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard (optional)
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Macaroni Salad Variations: To mix your macaroni salad up, you can add olives or colored peppers and feel free to experiment with different pasta sizes as well. If you choose something other than the macroni’s and go with farfelle or fusille (the corkscrew pastas) it can bring a texture change that a lot of people really love as unique.

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How to make Macaroni Salad

Add macaroni, eggs, and celery in a mixing bowl and mix well.

Stir in mayonnaise, mustard, onion powder, salt and pepper and mix well.

Add all but 1 teaspoon of green onions and mix well.

Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.

Serve with remaining onions sprinkled on top.

Serves 6-8

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Old fashioned macaroni salad is the retro recipe that will remind you of growing up at Grandmas. Cue the big scoops on the side and lets get busy making this simple, but delicious, party side dish. Also perfect for Thanksgiving, you cannot go wrong adding this one to the menu this holiday season.

Ingredients

• 4 cups cooked macaroni, about 2 cups dry
• 1 cup real mayonnaise
• 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
• 1/2 cup diced celery
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced and divided
• 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard (optional)
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

1. Add cooked macaroni, sliced eggs, sliced green onions, and chopped celery in a mixing bowl and mix well.
2. Stir in mayonnaise, mustard, onion powder, salt and pepper and mix well.
3. A lot of people do not love mustard, and this macaroni salad can be made with or without the mustard.
4. Refrigerate your Old Fashioned Macaroni Salad Recipe for 4 hours or overnight for the best flavor.
5. Serve with extra green onions sprinkled on top.

Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.

My grandma got a new laptop for Mother’s Day. She’s in her nineties, and firststarted using a computer a few years ago. Email, watching music onYouTube, and playing bridge online are now essential parts of her life.Her first computer was an old iBook, which still works fine, but the servicesshe uses have rendered it unusable:

The pace of obsolecence on the Internet is unacceptable.

A huge number of websites use JavaScript for questionable bells and whistles,under the assumption everyone has a really fast JS interpreter. A PowerPCrunning OSX 10.4 simply can’t run it fast enough, and these sites don’t degradegracefully — they freeze up.

Flash doesn’t make this better. Adobe simply gave up on this at a certainpoint, and Ten Four Fox, whichwas her only option after a certain point, didn’t really properly support Flasheither. Losing YouTube was harsh for her, and I can’t imagine why it wasreally necessary — when she first got the computer, it worked fine.

The computer was fine, but the internet dropped support for her. And in themost frustrating way: everything ran slower, broke in random and unexpectedways, and it was very hard to explain to her what was going on, why, or what todo about it. Sadly, the only option was to get her a new computer.

Setting up a new Mac for an old person is an epic pain in the ass

It’s probably not better on Windows or Linux distributions, and since she’dlearned on a Mac, that was the only practical option. Fortunately theinterface didn’t change too drastically between 10.4 and 10.8, but the factorysetup of the OS is piss poor for an old person. Because either the guestaccount was active by default, or she (or someone else) accidentally activatedit, I had the pleasure of setting her computer up to make it accessible to herseveral times. So the steps got stuck in my head:

• Disable the guest account. Go to System Preferences, unlockyour prefs, click on “Guest User”, and uncheck “Allow Guests to log on tothis computer”. Otherwise, it’s possible to log on, set things up, savefiles, and set up bookmarks on Safari — and lose everything as soon as youlog out.

• Auto log in the correct account. In “Security and Privacy”, uncheck“Require password for sleep and screen saver”. Uncheck “Disable automaticlogin”. Select the proper user in “Automatically log in as”, enter theirpassword, and press “OK”. For bonus points, you could set up a separatenon-admin account for them, although I didn’t do this.

• Allow apps only from the app store. I didn’t do this, but I probablyshould have — she doesn’t use any applications that aren’t in-browser, soanything else is probably a security risk.

• Make the cursor bigger. She could barely see the cursor on the newcomputer, partly because the screen resolution was much higher. Go to“Universal Access”, then “Mouse and Trackpad”, and make the cursor bigger forcomfort.

• Make everything bigger. Her new laptop has the same size screen, but muchhigher resolution. LCDs don’t look great below their natural resolution, butfor someone without great eyes, the slight blurriness is not noticeable atall — and it’s the best way to make sure everything is bigger. I cut herresolution from 1440 by 900 to 1024 by 640. Go to “Displays”, then“Display”, and reduce the resolution.

• Always make the screen as bright as possible. Still in “Displays”,increase the brightness to maximum. Uncheck “Automatically adjustbrightness”. Then, go to “Energy Saver”, then “Battery” and disable“Slightly dim the display when using this power source”.

• Increase general contrast. Go to “Universal Access”, then “Seeing”, andraise the “Enhance contrast” setting a bit underneath “Display” — a littlebit goes a long way.

• Make the cursor slower. By default, the cursor is pretty jumpy if youdon’t have very sure fingers — go to “Trackpad” and lower the trackingspeed.

• Turn off two-finger scrolling. In “Trackpad”, uncheck everything under“Scroll & Zoom”.

• Turn off trackpad actions, especially fancy multi-touch actions. In“Trackpad”, uncheck everything under “Point & Click” and “More Gestures”.

• Maximize and always show the Dock. Go to “Dock”. Drag the “Size” sliderto make it big as possible. Uncheck “Automatically hide and show the Dock”.

• Turn off Hot Corners, Exposé, and all the other shit that unexpectedlychanges screen layout. This is a big one, and can be extremely hard toexplain over the phone when something goes wrong. Go to “Mission Control”,and set all the “Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts” to “–”. Then click “HotCorners…” and set all of them to “–”, too.

• Remove unnecessary crap from the Dock. The only app my grandma uses isSafari, really. Sometimes on the phone it’s helpful to have her go to SystemPreferences. I removed everything from the dock excepting those two things,which also made the Dock bigger, and easier for to click on Safari.

• Remove unnecessary crap from the menu bar. By default, Bluetooth andTime Machine are in the menu bar, and are useless and possibly confusing.Since she doesn’t store any files on the computer, Time Machine is entirelyunnecessary. Go to their respective preference panes and remove them.

• Always show scroll bars. Personally, I hate Apple’s move towards hidingscrollbars unless you maneuver the mouse to that tiny space on the edge ofa window you need to scroll. And it sucks really, really hard for someonehas trouble with slight trackpad movements. Go to “General” in “SystemPreferences”, and select “Always” under “Show scroll bars”. While you’rethere, you may as well change sidebar icon size to “Large”.

• Make fonts bigger in Safari. I set her up with Safari just because it’sbundled with the OS and is the most straightforward, although surely Firefoxand Chrome have similar options. Go to “Preferences”, then “Advanced”, thencheck off “Never use font sizes smaller than”. I set hers to 16, althoughthis would be a little risky for someone who browses more random sites (herrepertoire is pretty set.) Some sites are nigh-on unusable when you futz withtheir formatting that much. Probably 12 is safe.

• Make the Safari homepage something useful. Go to “Preferences” inSafari, then set both “New windows open with” and “New tabs open with” to“Homepage”. Then set the homepage to Google, or something else that’s notapple.com.

• Log into all the services. Make sure they stay logged in. I logged herinto Gmail, and checked off the option to keep her logged in.

• Remove stupid bookmarks. By default, Safari is loaded with a bunch ofbookmarks she didn’t need. She doesn’t use Facebook or Twitter. She doesn’tuse iCloud. I have no idea who uses the “News” or “Popular” folders. I gotrid of them all.

Some stuff just sucks and you can’t fix it

The Adobe Flash updater is really confusing, requires multiple clicks just toupgrade, it doesn’t explain what it does or why it needs to run. It’sextremely difficult to explain to someone without a pretty solid comfort withcomputers what the hell is going on when it keeps popping dialog boxes in frontof them. But keeping Flash up to date is important, and necessary for yotubeHopefully Flash will die soon and this can finally be done away with.

The Notification Center menu item, and App Store stuff in general, is newand unnecessary for her in 10.8. Apple’s doesn’t let you remove it. Thatsucks, but it’s something that hopefully won’t cause any problems.

iCloud is a pain in the ass in a similar way. I wasn’t sure exactly how it washappening, but my Grandma kept asking me questions about iCloud that make methink it randomly pops up stuff asking her to set it up. Since it didn’thappen when I was there though, I couldn’t be sure how to make it shut up.

In conclusion

It’s nuts that to make a new laptop relatively unthreatening and accessible foran enthusiastic 90-something requires going across a dozen System Preferencespanes and sub-panes, and simply having to accept certain things as inevitablyconfusing. I don’t know what the solution is, and it may not be possible tomake the set up something that my grandma itself could do, but the steps abovetook nearly an hour to figure out (and a good 20 minutes to reproduce.)

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Furthermore, most of the internet is a usability nightmare for the elderly.Tasks like clicking on a form field to fill it out, seeing that a white menudrop down on a white menu is, in fact, a drop-down, or navigating to a “Log in”button can become idiotically arduous tasks. The fad for hiding controls whenyou’re not using them (looking at you, scroll bars) is particularlyfrustrating. Controls themselves are often tiny, with no clear way to makethem bigger — YouTube is particularly bad with this.

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Setting up this laptop several times, and seeing her struggle through theusability nightmare that is most of the internet, made me think about howlittle account I take of usability in my own designs. It’s hard — withoutseeing someone actually work through these problems, the choke points aren’tobvious. In all honesty, I don’t think it’s practical for web designers to doso: the expense is too great and the impact is small. The makers of OSs andbrowsers are in a far better position to make using the internet moremanageable for the elderly.