Pasta salad

[nyecamden]

For years I found both the concept and the actuality of pasta salad repellent. Cold, rubbery pasta... WHY? It is quite a handy lunch item though, so I thought I'd try it again but home-made this time.

I used wholewheat fusilli (I don't eat white pasta at home).

Comments

[vicki_t_veg]

at school I lived on pasta in thousand island sauce for lunch almost every day for 5 years,very occasionally I'd have chips but the queue for hot food was so much longer than for the 'salad bar'
I find a lot of pre-made vegetarian pasta salad has loads of tomato in making them really acidic

[bloodbeauty]

i'd insist that you add salt to the water when boiling your pasta, makes such a different. you want to add quite a bit (i was always told you wanted it to taste like sea water)

running your (drained) pasta under cold water is a good way to cool it down as well.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/08/zucchini-and-almond-pasta-salad/
http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/08/summer-pea-and-roasted-red-pepper-pasta-salad/
pasta salad recipes from one of my favourite blogs, but there are lots of other recipes on her site that i think you'd like.

and for good measure a link to http://foodblogsearch.com/ because i find it *so* helpful when looking for something interesting and new.

[nyecamden]

Thanks for the links. I always use salted water when cooking pasta - didn't think to mention that as it feels like an obvious one.

[bloodbeauty]

heh, i've got used to my friends here, they're all students who can barely cook >_<

[morecake]

Pasta salad with plenty of salt, pepper and vinegar is remarkably palatable (assuming you actually like those ingreients).