Colorful Pasta Salad
"This is so good, perfect for a hot day when you don't feel like sweating in the kitchen. The colors are so great, feel free to sub in your favorite veggies!"
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 lb tri-color spiral pasta
- 1 cucumber, cut into triangles
- 1 yellow squash, cut into triangles
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
- 1⁄2 cup olive, sliced
- 1⁄2 yellow pepper, chopped
- 1 cup broccoli, steamed crisp
- 1 cup cauliflower, steamed crisp
- 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese, shredded
- 1⁄4 cup feta cheese
- Italian dressing (I use Kraft House light)
- ranch dressing (I use Kraft light)
directions
- Boil pasta according to box, run under cold water to chill.
- Chop all veggies according to list.
- Mix everything in a large bowl.
- Add about 2/3 of the Italian, and 1/2 cup of ranch.
- Add more as needed.
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Reviews
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My husband isn't a big fan of pasta salad, but seeing as how he'll eat pretty much whatever I put in front of him, I tried this because it looked so good! I used olive oil and a little lemon juice instead of dressing, he will NOT eat salad dressing! I tossed the cooked pasta in the strainer with a whole/mashed garlic clove and them removed it. I added mushrooms and a dash of cayenne pepper. It was good! He picked around the feta, so I'll leave that out next time, but I will make this again!
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My husband isn't a big fan of pasta salad, but seeing as how he'll eat pretty much whatever I put in front of him, I tried this because it looked so good! I used olive oil and a little lemon juice instead of dressing, he will NOT eat salad dressing! I tossed the cooked pasta in the strainer with a whole/mashed garlic clove and them removed it. I added mushrooms and a dash of cayenne pepper. It was good! He picked around the feta, so I'll leave that out next time, but I will make this again!
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I live in MI with my family and am always on the lookout for new tasty recipes that even my toddler will like. He loves meat and pasta, most fruit and is getting better about veggies. I cook every meal 7 days a week, with the occasional lunch or dinner out (very occasional!) but I love cooking so it's not a bad thing to me.
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<br>I am a big sweets eater and recently got an ice cream maker so I have been whipping up lots of ice cream. My favorite so far has been Ben and Jerry's heath bar crunch, it's so creamy and only lasts 2 days in this house! Other baked goods and homemade bread are favorites too, though not much bread gets baked in the summer.
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<br>I hate doing dishes! We are currently house hunting and a dishwasher is a must (we don't have one right now). Luckily my dh is pretty good about helping out with the dishes :)
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<br>I know it seems like I give lots of good reviews, but there is a good reason: I know what we like, so I pick dishes I think we will like, and often we do. If i give a review of a recipe with no stars it's because I think I did something wrong usually so that's why it didn't come out right. Or if something has excellent ratings and I don't like it, I don't want to ruin that, because obviously I didn't like something, but that's not a refection of the actual recipe!
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<br>I dislike when people don't make the recipe correctly and give it a bad review. Ok, if you change one or two small things, fine, but if you make major changes, not ok. And when people give a bad review because it was good, but not what they are looking for? Sorry, but I don't get that. YOU picked it, if it tastes good but wasn't what you were looking for, not the recipe's fault :)
