Friday, June 28, 2013

Heather's Pasta Salad

Ingredients:


  • Box of colorful twisty pasta
  • 1/2 block motzerella cheese
  • jar or can of artichokes
  • jar of hearts of palm
  • can of olives
  • cucumber
  • bell pepper of your choice
  • grape tomatoes
  • can baby corn
  • lemon
  • salt and pepper
  • olive oil
  • balsamic vinigear
  • Italian dressing

Directions:
Boil water with salt and cook the noodels.  While cooking, cube cheese, slice artichoces, hearts of palm, olives, cucumber, bell pepper, grape tomatoes, and baby corn.  Drain the noodels, and run under cool water.  Combine the cut ingredients to the noodels in a large bowl.  Topping should double the size of the amount in the bowl when added to noodels- you man not need full cans or need to cut the entire veggie.  Drizzle olive oil, and italian dressing over the pasta.  Add a dash of balsamic, but not too much or it will over power.  Add some of the juice of the artichokes from the can, and squeeze the lemon in too.  Salt and peper. 

Fills a medium large bowl, and takes about 10 to 15 minutes. 

Notes:
You can buy heart of palm at Walmart, or any grocery store really.  I like to add black beans too, or anything else I have that seems like it would go well.