Vegetable Pasta Salad

Welcome back! Hope you had a great weekend and are having a good start of the week. I had a great weekend, but busy. I catered a 90th birthday for about 200 people, so was very busy. For the party I made a vegetable pasta salad. I have had several people come in today saying how much they enjoyed the pasta salad. So I am going to share that recipe today.

You can use your favorite raw vegetables. The ones that I use are: broccoli florets, cauliflower florets, thinly sliced celery, grated carrots, sliced radishes, diced onions, sliced green pepper and sometimes I add sliced black olives.

Vegetable Pasta Salad

1# rainbow rotoni
2 cups mixed raw vegetables, washed and prepared
Pasta Salad Dressing

Cook rotoni according to package. Rinse under cold water and drain well. Put cooked rotoni and raw vegetables into a large bowl. Add dressing and mix well. Chill overnight.

Pasta Salad Dressing
3 cups mayonnaise
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup vinegar
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
3 teaspoons granulated garlic
1-1/2 teaspoons each dried whole oregano and whole basil
Mix well.