Saturday, August 7, 2010

Reesie's summer pasta salad

Here is an easy to make summer pasta salad. Your first step will be to wash your hands.

You will need:
1 large bowl
1 spoon
cutting board
knife
saucepan
vegetable peeler
strainer
cereal bowl

Ingredients

mayonnaise - you will not use an entire jarGreen Goddess Dressing
1/2 box pasta - medium shell or elbow macaroni work well, but you could use almost any kind that you have on hand
1/2 green pepper
1/2 red onion
2 medium tomatoes
1 cucumber
1 stalk of celery
1/2 package of dell sliced ham
1 package of monteray jack (or colby jack) cheese
1 small package of frozen peas
Steps:
1. Boil pasta for about 20 minutes. Put finished pasta into strainer. Run cold water over the cooked pasta until it is cold to the touch.
2. While you are waiting for your pasta to cook, you can start chopping the rest of your ingrediants and mixing your dressing.
3. To make your dressing, start off with 2 spoonfuls of mayonnaise and mix in a small amount of the Green Goddess dressing in a cereal bowl. You can add more later if needed. Sometimes the salad will become dry when in the fridge for a day or so.
4. Cube your ham, cheese, green pepper, tomatoes and onions. Slice your celery. Dice your cucumber.
5. Cook your peas by microwaving them until they are defrosted.
6. Put all of your ingrediants into the large bowl, then put your dressing on top of
everything. Then stir it until coated with the dressing.

This tastes better after refridgerated overnight.

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