Pre-ONT -- Summer foods

Summer seems to really be here now. I've found I change my eating habits during the hot south FL summer days. Cold/chilled dishes seems to be the way to go.

This is my summer chilled EZ-prep "diner pasta salad" I've been grooving on for about a month now.

Rotini, about 1/3 of a can of garbanzo's, a small can of diced tomato, 1/2 a small bag of mixed frozen vegetables.

The frozen veggies can be cooked along with the Rotini's. Drain and add in the other stuff. Olives are an optional add if you have them, so is pepperoncini.

The seasoning is what makes it work.

Badia makes some stuff called "complete seasoning". Its awesome. Dump a bunch on. Also dump in a healthy dose of oregano, and some rosemary.

Can you sense the Mediterranean theme starting to show yet?

Now the secret ingredient -- Italian salad dressing. Sprinkle in enough that it'll lightly coat everything when you mix it all up.

Shove the bowl in the fridge for an hour and let it chill down before snarfing.

Anyone got their own favorites? Fire away

posted by Purp at 09:46 PM

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