I was making that pasta salad that Betty Crocker puts out, and I almost experienced catastrophe.
The pasta is in a plastic bag, and I sort of didn't look in the box and tried to just dump things blindly in the boiling water.
Luckily, I caught both the bag of pasta and the spice bag before it hit the water.
I'm looking at the ingredients for this thing, and it kind of gives me the screaming squicks. I don't want to eat "hydrolyzed corn gluten" and "monosodium glutamate". Those might be great, but I don't want to mess around with this crap. Plus, 770mg of sodium in 3/4 of a cup? Hmmm...
It looks like I could maybe make my own?
Enriched plain, spinach, and tomato pasta... I'm sure that I can probably just buy that, right?
Red bell pepper, parsley flakes, garlic, onion, basil, vegetable oil....
The back of the box gives suggestions for adding pepperoni, broccoli, carrots, olives, and cauliflower.
I just realized that this is what you call "pasta salad", and there are probably a bunch of recipes for it out there.
Some of you may laugh, but if you spend a lifetime not cooking this stuff can feel like a revelation.
Suddenly My Own Pasta Salad...
I'll have to try that.
~ Patty
If you eat pepperoni, there's a lovely recipe on the back of the mini pepperoni for a pasta salad involving said mini pepperoni, cheese, veg and noodles, using Italian dressing as the sauce. I adore it, it's quick and easy and aside from the crap in the processed meat is pretty decent. Plus it makes a great potluck dish.
ReplyDelete(I made a big batch of it using gluten free noodles for a class where I had to bring food to share. It went over quite well.)