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

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

My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. My Mom's Summer Pasta Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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. And this is the best way to enjoy it in the summertime.

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

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

I like mine light, with no mayonnaise and lots of raw, crunchy vegetables for texture and color. The only thing cooked here is the pasta. This pasta salad is very portable and can sit out all afternoon and be absolutely fine to eat, hours later. This easy summer pasta salad with Milo's Famous Sweet Tea vinaigrette is one of my favorites that gives me the opportunity to throw in all of my favorite in-season vegetables and herbs for a quick and simple recipe everyone will love.

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!

Anyway, I've wanted to post this pasta salad for weeks now because it's SO good! It's my mom's recipe and she usually makes it in the summer. We had this on our Memorial Day menu along with barbecued chicken, grilled pineapple, baked beans and fresh strawberry pie (I could really go for some of that pie right about now!). Summer is coming and soon I will not want to turn on the oven. This Summer Pasta Salad Recipe is one of our favorites!

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