Pasta Salad Recipes

[snogged]

Hello darling!

I'm attending a party tomorrow that our neighbors are hosting and I was asked to bring a pasta salad. Now...this is not something I made traditionally (I much more of a dessert lady and I do plan to bring the brownies!)

I know I could just wander out to the grocery store and pick up a pound of something from the deli, but I'd rather make it fresh.

So that's why I'm coming to you. If you've got any great ones to share, please pass them on!

Thanks.

Comments

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Thank you, love.

I'm not sure if the store in town will have sweet and sour salad dressing but it's possible. Send me a recipe just in case though.

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

I've never made this, so if you do, tell me how it turns out. From allrecipes.com:

Ingredients
* 1 cup vegetable oil
* 2/3 cup white sugar
* 1/3 cup distilled white vinegar
* 1/4 small onion, finely diced
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
* 1/2 teaspoon celery seed

Directions

In a blender or salad dressing shaker, combine oil, sugar, vinegar, onion, salt, mustard, and celery seed. Blend or shake until emulsified. real-restaurant-recipes.com says to add all but the oil into the blender, slighly blend them, then stream the oil in. Then, when all the oil has been added, process one more minute or until thick.

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

Sweet & Sour Pasta Salad

Ingredients (to taste):

1pkg (16 oz) tricolor spiral pasta
1bag (@16oz) brocoli (chopped)
sm bag sliced Peperoni
1bg shredded colby cheese
olives
sweet & sour salad dressing

Boil pasta (follow bag directions), then combine with other ingredients. The longer the salad is in the fridge, the better it tastes.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

She uses frozen broccoli then?

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she does and just thaws it. She said if you use fresh, then put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes until it's soft (not mushy) or maybe even steam it if you wanted.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Sounds good.

ETA: Does she use all of the salad dressing?

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

She buys it in jars and uses 2 jars (12-16 oz each). Looking at the recipe, mom says it should take all of that. It's just supposed to coat it, though when you first make it, it's probably going to look like you have too much dressing until the broccoli and pasta absorb some of it.

Mom says that if you make too much, it's great dip fries, and steak and whatever else in. Pretty much anything you can dip, except fruit.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

All righty then. :)

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I was able to find two 16 oz bottles of the stuff at the store. And the way I understand your instructions here...I use them both?

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

That's what my mom does. I really hope you enjoy it!