8 Cold Pasta Salad Recipes for Summer

By Natalie K. Gould
Published on March 26, 2013
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Substitute any variety of pasta in pasta salad recipes, such as easy-to-eat bow ties.

One of summer’s many gifts is the freedom to prepare simpler, lighter meals using ingredients from right outside your back door. Most of my warm-weather meals are made sans recipe and depend completely on what was harvested in the garden that day, not to mention avoiding a hot oven at all costs. This means lots of fruits, vegetables, herbs, beans and any meat I can cook on an outdoor grill. I have found that adding pasta noodles with any number of these ingredients makes a complete and filling meal. Drizzle a homemade dressing over it all, and you’ll have a salad better than anything you can buy out of a deli case. Plus, there are always leftovers for another meal or two.

8 COLD PASTA SALAD RECIPES:
Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe
Garden Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe With Dill

Summer Pasta Salad Recipe
Shrimp Pasta Salad Recipe

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