Going to the grocery store is a no-no when you are hungry.  The only thing Markdown Mom finds difficult about that admonition is usually you go to the store because you are hungry and there is nothing in the house to eat or frankly nothing that appeals.  You go to the store hungry and usually tired.  Why tired?  Because if you are not tired and hungry, you wouldn’t be at a grocery store unless you are a grocery shopaholic–you probably would be out with friends, at the mall, or any number of places.  But eating is essential to living, and when you are tired and hungry, man, those deli salads look great–expensive because they are sold by weight, but yummy.  One of Markdown Mom’s weaknesses for a cold dish was a local deli’s seafood salad.  A pint was too little for her family, and a quart, well-l-l, which child do you sell to pay for it?  Instead, Markdown Mom did her own version of this deli ambrosia of seafood.

Markdown Mom’s Deli Seafood Salad

Dry Ingredients

4-6 oz. Fettucine pasta

3 Scallions including tops for color

1-2 Pinches of White pepper (to taste)

1-2 Pinches Sea  salt finely granulated (to taste

¾ -1 lb. or 10 oz.  Cooked medium shrimp w/o tails or heads

20 oz. Artificial crab or lobster meat

Wet Ingredients

2 Cups of Hellman’s Mayonnaise*

1-2 Tbspns. Half ‘n Half (to desired thick or thin consistency)

1 Tbspn. Squeezed lemon juice (to taste)

1 Tbspn.  Salad Dill

(Fresh or next best things is Gourmet Garden® Dill Herb Blend)

METHOD: Take the dry pasta and put it into boiling hot water seasoned with kosher salt.  In a separate bowl or large measuring glass combine mayonnaise, half ‘n half, lemon juice, white pepper, dill, and sea salt for salad dressing.  Taste.  Shop scallions and set aside.

If  crab or lobster meat is in pieces, break pieces apart, or if in stickform cut into pieces.  Drain fettucine in colander and rinse with cold water–let cool.

Combine pasta, shrimp, crab/lobster, scallions together.  Add the salad dressing to the pasta, put in covered bowl and in refrigerator to chill.  Serve chilled.

*can substitute lowfat version of mayonnaise and lowfat  half ‘n half.

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