Macaroni Salad

Here's something I whipped up for my college barkada's gathering for today. We decided on a children friendly Christmas gathering by opting for potluck at one of our friend's house, compared to the usual yearly lets-meet-at-a-resto. I offered for prepare this since a lot of the stuff were already either grilled or fried, and figured that a nice cold macaroni salad would be best to compliment what the others will be bringing along.

Its easy to prepare, and can be done one day before hand as you'll likely need to refrigerate the salad once you're finished preparing it.

Ingredients
macaroni elbow pasta (or actually, any type of pasta with do as long as they're bite sized pieces)
oil
water, for boiling pasta
shredded chicken meat, from whole chicken
raisins
pineapple bits, from can
potatoes, cubed
carrots, cubed
iodized salt and pepper

Method
Boil the water, add in some oil and a dash of salt to taste. When boiling, add the pasta and follow the package directions for the appropriate length of time to cook. Before removing the pasta from the boiling water, make sure that they're just about appropriately cooked, al dente. Place on a strainer and douse with slightly cold water to avoid them pastas from continuing to cook from the hot water. Set aside.

Cook the cubed potatoes and carrots by also placing them in a pot of boiling water similar to the pasta. Add a dash of salt to taste. Wait for roughly 3 minutes for the pieces to cook, and then strain out from the pot, and also set aside.

Place the pasta into a big bowl, and slowly add the rest of the ingredients together with the mayonnaise/miracle whip while carefully tossing them. Again, you can add salt and pepper to the mixture to taste. Once the taste is to your liking, pack and refrigerate until needed to be served.

First time I made, and i must say, it is pretty good. :) Feel free to try it out and experiment.