Welcome to our Fun in the Summer Fun event! Each Monday until September 7th Mama to 4 Blessings along with Adventures of Mommydom, Sweet Diva, Harvest Moon By Hand, and Sweet Phenomena will be hosting Fun in the Summer Fun link up events.
Here's the line up:
The 1st Monday of each month: link up your "Kid friendly summer activities"
The 2nd Monday of each month: link up your "Kid friendly summer crafts"
The 3rd Monday of each month: link up your "Kid friendly summer receipes"
The 4th Monday of each month: link up your "How to stay cool in the summer heat"
I love love love pasta salad. Now Jeff and I have differing ideas of what makes a good pasta salad. He’s more of a ranch creamy salad, and I’m more of an italian salad lover.
So we compromise. I devise a pasta salad bar when we have this for dinner, and everyone gets to design their own.
Materials:
Pasta: cook one or several of these: bowtie, twist, or spaghetti. I like the tricolor because it adds in some vegetable servings
Meat: chicken, fajita meat (yum!), hamburger meat, taco meat, sausage
Cheese: parmesan (the grated kind is best to my mind), colby jack (my kids’ choice), feta cheese (mine), cheddar, not as common but yummy: manchego (LOVE that stuff)
Other things: sunflower seeds, croutons (if you can find the smaller ones, that’s even better), raisins, ramen noodles lightly sauteed in butter, or just uncooked ramen noodles
Sauce (our favorites): Italian, Caesar, Miso dressing, Ranch
I usually give each person a bowl and let them go down the line adding in what they want. If I’m preparing it for a picnic I make two versions, a bigger version with Ranch dressing for Jeff and the kids, and a smaller version for me with Italian dressing. I figure if I’m the one wanting different stuff I’m willing to do that.
It’s always devoured, and it makes for great travel food.
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