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Macaroni salad

Salads from Christmas past

11.04.2025 in Newsletter by Connie Veneracion

There were three salads that never failed to make an appearance on the Christmas dinner table when I was growing up. Chicken potato salad or chicken macaroni salad, sometimes both, and buko / fruit salad.

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Connie Veneracion, 2020

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Home cook and writer by passion, photographer by necessity, and good food, coffee and wine lover forever. I write recipes, cooking tips and food stories. No AI is used in creating content for this blog.

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