My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad
My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, my mom's summer pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

My mom has been making this summer pasta salad recipe for as long as I can remember. It's my go-to potluck dish for summer get togethers and a perfect side dish for any BBQ. In our Italian home, pasta has always been such a comfort food.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook my mom's summer pasta salad using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad:
  1. Take 1/2 box Rotini noodles, (I used tri-colored) cooked as instructed on box. Do not overcook!
  2. Take 1 cup Chopped tomato
  3. Make ready 1 cup Sliced green olives
  4. Take 1 cup Sliced black olives
  5. Get 1 cup Diced celery
  6. Make ready 3/4 cup Chopped onion (more or less, as desired) If you prefer, you can leave it out.
  7. Prepare 1 cup Your favorite Italian dressing.*** Add more if desired!
  8. Make ready 2 Packets of Splenda or 4 tsp. sugar
  9. Get 1 Fresh ground black pepper to taste!

Toss in all chopped ingredients you have in with pasta. This is by far my favorite summer side dish! Growing up my Dad didn't like it very much so my Mom would usually only make it when he went out of town. This fresh summer veggie pasta salad is a great way to use up all of those vegetables from the garden.

Steps to make My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad:
  1. Boil your noodles as directed on box. Do not overcook! Drain.
  2. Add veggies to pasta in large bowl.
  3. Add Italian dressing and Splenda or sugar and ground pepper.
  4. Mix well, chill and enjoy!
  5. Add more dressing the next day as needed, if put in the fridge overnight!

This vegetable pasta salad is loaded with a variety of veggies and seasoned with spices and Italian dressing. It's so fresh and delicious, it could easily be served as a main dish instead of a side. Wow, this totally takes me back to my childhood. My mom made something very similar on hot days, adding canned tuna fish to it. I love making this summer pasta salad with arugula, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, capers, fresh shaved Parmesan cheese - no mayo!

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