Cold Pasta Salad

[CiaoBellaXO]

Does anyone have any good recipes? Before I head over to allrecipes.com and get bombarded....thanks! I am looking for something really lite that I can take for lunches and to munch on.... ;)

[iceygirl]

its really easy and very good

i like to use the twirly multi colored pasta (know what i mean?) and just cook that up and throw in, peas, black olives, chopped onion, little tomatoes, sometimes some bacon, just like whatever sounds good, then dump on some ranch dressing (not too much)

the pasta soaks up the dressing, so sometimes i add some more as i go

[cosmo105]

i'd rather use italian dressing, or a vinaigrette or something. try adding garbanzo beans too. fuck, i love garbanzo beans.

[CiaoBellaXO]

i'd rather use italian dressing, or a vinaigrette or something. try adding garbanzo beans too. fuck, i love garbanzo beans.


I just like saying the word garbanzo...I mean really who the hell came up with that name?

[b-grrrlie]

I usually put olives, feta cheese, sugar snaps, pickled onions and red and yellow paprika and I make a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and soy sauce. I use gnocchi or those swirly pasta because the dressing gets stuck in all the "corners".

[CiaoBellaXO]

sugar snaps? What are they?

thanks guys...going grocery shopping after work and just going to buy a bunch a veggies (and garbanzo beans cosmo) and dump it in. Let ya know how it goes...think I can use goat cheese?

[cosmo105]

sugar snap peas are the yummiest thing this side of cotton candy. seriously, they're delicious. i eat them raw, or with dip. they're just peas that are very sweet, basically. a little more expensive than other peas, but mmm mm. (y)

[CiaoBellaXO]

obviously I don't know my veggies...

[HEIRESS]

apple cidar vinegar dressings are good on pasta salads

feta is always a must

cold rice salads with mixed bean sprouts are a0g3046rgnn4986329ydbhs

[cosmo105]

i just made an AWESOME salad, man. i had vegetable spirals, cooked them pretty firm, then rinsed them until they cooled off. i added a bunch of diced black olives, a can of salad beans, diced red and yellow bell peppers, and then tossed it with garlic flavored olive oil and some red wine vinegar. it was SO easy, and seriously, fantastic. i have tons of leftovers too. and every single ingredient was organic :cool:

[CiaoBella]

salad beans? Like garbanzo beans?

[HEIRESS]

I buy this medditeranean pasta sauce that is kind of a yellow and orange pepper pesto and it works really really well as a pasta salad dressing if you thin it out with some extra olive oil and vinegar

I like carrot slices in my pasta salads too

whole wheat or multigrain pasta was made to be put into a salad
so perfect

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[cosmo105]

ooh yeah i love quinoa garden pagodas. they're so cute, too! they have the perfect texture.

[beastiegirrl101]

bumping this thread because in need of some light summer pasta salads...

I just found an amazing one for cucumber & dill

what are you cookin?

[monkey]

i made one last summer with an olive oil vinagrette, cherry tomatoes, tri color pasta, corn, kidney beans (or garbanzos, if you like. when i was little, it was the only beans i would eat. hehe.), and peas. it's really filling though, so i just make it as dinner.

and garbanzo is a spanish word. i dont know where it came from, but i know it's spanish. :o