I made one unintentional change to this recipe. I accidentally picked up 2 cans of creamed corn rather than 1 of creamed and 1 of whole kernel. It still turned out delicious. I was torn about whether to precook the macaroni because about half of the reviewers were adamant that you should and the other half said definitely do not. I decided to follow the recipe exactly and NOT precook. The macaroni was done to perfection. It's a mystery to me how we can all follow the same recipe, cook it at the same temp for the same length of time, and some get done and some do not. But my recommendation is to NOT precook it. Just adds to the time required to prepare and the number of dishes to wash. The one thing I will try next time is using less butter. While the dish wasn't at all greasy, I just keep thinking about how much fat is in a full stick of butter, even though I used light butter. We won't eat this too often because it's loaded with carbs, but it's a great dish to serve the grandchildren.

Reviewed On: Nov. 12, 2009

Delicious. I used fresh pumpkin instead of canned. I substituted an equal amount of Splenda in place of the sugar. I also substituted an equal amount of whole-wheat pastry flour in place of the all-purpose flour. It had a great flavor. It wasn't quite as moist as I had hoped, but I didn't rate it down for that since I altered the recipe. Perhaps the ww flour caused the slight dryness. I am going to try it again, and this time I will replace the water with coconut milk to see if that makes it a little more moist. I'll let you know how it turns out. Oh, one more thing I changed but didn't intend to...when I opened my carton of eggs I realized I had bought medium instead of large. So I used 5 medium eggs instead of the 4 large eggs called for in the recipe. No idea what effect that may have had on the final product. When I make it again I'll be sure to have the correct size eggs.

Reviewed On: Nov. 9, 2009

I thought this was very good, but not great because I just didn't care for the sweetness of the dressing. I may try it again and leave the sugar out of the mayo. The only thing I changed was to use red bell pepper instead of green, which made it more colorful.

Reviewed On: Oct. 30, 2009