Orange Zested Macaroni Pasta Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 cups cooked macaroni or 4 cups other pastas
1/2 orange, zest and juice of
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 onion, diced very fine
2 -4 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley, to taste
1/2 red bell pepper, diced (optional)
2 scallions, diced (optional)
1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
1 teaspoon paprika (optional)
black pepper
1 dash salt

Preparation

Combine ingredients. Best with lots of black pepper, in my opinion.
Orange flavor will get stronger as it sits in the fridge. Zesting all the peel from the 1/2 orange will make the orange flavor rather strong, especially if you plan to refrigerate before serving.
If you don't have a zester, crosshatch an area of orange peel with light cuts from a sharp knife, then \"shave\" the pieces off. It's very easy and with heavy crosshatching yields results comparable to using a good zester.