Thursday, August 18, 2011

Cold Pasta Salad



The kids are back in school (hallelujah), so technically summer is over. Here in California, though, it's still in the mid to upper 90s. I thought I would share a recipe that our family uses a lot in the summer time. The only heating of your house is to boil the pasta! When we didn't have A/C, heating the house was a big thing!

Cold Pasta Salad

1 lb pasta
1/2 lb mozzarella, cubed
8-10 fresh basil leaves or 2 Tbl dried basil
2-3 tomatoes
1/4-1/2 cup olive oil
salt or vinegar (optional)

Boil your pasta as normal. While boiling cut mozzarella, basil and tomatoes. Drain pasta and rinse with cold water until pasta is cool. Combine mozzarella, basil and tomatoes with the pasta. Drizzle olive oil over the pasta and stir to coat.

In our family some like a little bit of salt on our pasta and others like vinegar.
Let us know if you find something else that tastes good!
Hope you had an enjoyable summer!
And enjoy the kids going back to school!
Yeehaw!

Jacki :)

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