I love a good pasta salad. It’s just so delicious and filling. My love for it started when Hubby was in the hospital because of heart attack. I ate at the hospital’s cafeteria for lunch every single day and I came across a bow tie salad that was just so good. Hubby was in the hospital for 13 days so I had it everyday except for a few days that they didn’t have it.
I actually remembered asking a Filipina working there at the cafeteria how they made the pasta. She told me about it, but I forgot all the details.
Then I came across this pasta salad recipe online.
This salad recipe actually called for Rotini noodles. But since I’d been wanting to make that bow tie salad, I decided to use bow tie pasta instead. Aren’t bow tie pasta the cutest? 🙂
I also tweaked the recipe to my liking. I didn’t add black olives because I’m not a fan of olives; black olives are one of the hubby’s faves but he had no complaints about the salad because he never read the recipe. 🙂 I also didn’t add banana peppers because I couldn’t find them at the supermarket.
This pasta salad was made with homemade Italian dressing and it was exciting for me to make. Italian is my favorite dressing of all and this was the first time that I actually made the homemade one. I used to just always buy a bottle of it at the supermarket.
I love the addition of cucumber and cherry tomatoes in this pasta. I love the mozzarella cheese, too. They didn’t have the mozzarella balls so I bought the sticks and just cut them in bite size pieces.
You can find the recipe that I followed here.
How about you? Do you like pasta salad?
Happy Foodie Friday, friends!
I’m on a hunt to find a dish I can make for the weekend that I can eat off of all weekend, and this is it. I love pasta and all of the veggies you’ve added to this just seals the deal. Plus I’m a big fan of Italian Dressing. I’ve always wanted to learn to make my own.
That pasta salad looks so good and I love a good Italian or oil and vinager dressing with perfect seasoning. I have always loved bow ties for their great texture in all foods and sauces.
Bow tie pasta is so pretty in salads. This is a salad that would be perfect for a potluck.
I would use the bow tie pasta too, yeah it’s the cutest and it’s tastes great too.
Looks so delicious, I would love to try this sometime.
Yum! This salad looks really festive and so yummy. I like the pasta.
Love Italian flavors and I am sure I will love this pasta salad! Deliciousness1
Bowtie paste is so beautifully. Lol. Meanwhile, I too will pass on the olives while trying this recipe
Been thinking of what to prepare this weekend and am glad I came over this post. Never tried this yet so I guess I will consider this. Looks yummy!
That looks delicious! I don’t like olives in a salad, too. Anyway, this bow tie pasta salad will surely be a hit here in our home.
I love the bow tie pasta it’s so cute. I need to try this dish out on the kids they love pasta and mozzarella cheese.
What a great summer salad. So easy to make, too! Love the combination of ingredients.
I so love pasta and salad treats and this italian dressing is a bonus! This looks so yummy!
I love pasta salad too! And your bow tie pasta salad looks so cute and delicious 😍
Oh gosh that looks so good! I love pasta salad as well for sure, I’m always looking for new ways to try