Summer Pasta Salad

A simple, Summer Pasta Salad recipe that is perfect for all of your summer BBQ’s and potlucks!  It is a great recipe for using up all of the vegetables from your garden or farmers market haul. I’m not specifying quantities as I tend to think that with salads you go for what you like.

Summer Pasta Salad

A simple, Summer Pasta Salad recipe that is perfect for all of your summer BBQ’s and potlucks!  It is a great recipe for using up all of the vegetables from your garden or farmers market haul.

Ingredients

Salad

• Penne Pasta - cooked & then cooled
• grape tomatoes - halved
• kalamata olives - halved
• fresh mozzarella
• half a bunch of basil
• bunch of chives

Dressing

• equal amounts of red wine vinegar & extra virgin olive oil
• salt & pepper
• garlic

Instructions

1. Combine salad ingredients
2. Combine dressing ingredients
3. Add dressing to salad and toss to coat evenly right before serving

Category Pasta Salad

Tags

basil,

chives,

mozzarella,

olives,

penne pasta,

tomatoes

Recipe and Photo: Michael Verhoef