Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Tex Mex Pasta Salad

As requested - this one's for you, Debi! Rather than retype it, I'm posting a link to the original recipe from Cooking Light.

When I hear "pasta salad" I think cold side dish, but this is definitely a warm main dish. It has a long list of ingredients, but you can pick and choose if you don't have everything. For example, I never put the olives in and I only add the green onions and cilantro when I have them left over from something else.

If you have picky eaters, you can do this dish a la carte and create their servings individually. Elise doesn't like beans, Dean doesn't like tomatoes, Grant doesn't want the sour cream mixture. I add whatever isn't going to offend them to their pasta (which can be whatever shape you have on hand) and everyone ends up happy. I throw whatever's left into the bowl and mix it together.

2 comments:

Debi said...

YUMMY:)
thanks...your the best!

PS my word verification for this was"ingrant"!!!! too funny:)

*Paula* said...

I like this a lot but sadly Matt does not. And forget Tommy!