Snogged: An Insatiable State of Mind

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.

A friend of mine gifted me with two lovely summer squashes from her garden and I was curious if any of my flist had recipes they could share with me as I'm hopeless when it comes to cooking experimentally, but I can follow a recipe all right.

I'm looking to try some different things, mostly dinner type stuff, but desserts are fine too. So I'd like to ask anyone willing to share their favorite thing to make.

I'd prefer to keep the ingredients list somewhat cheap and easy as I'm not much of an advanced chef nor do we have a lot of grocery store options around here. But other than that, I'm pretty much open to anything you want to share.