Yesterday morning I had to make a quick trip into town to pick up packages from the post office and chairs and tables from Sam's
I timed it so I could grab a roasted chicken. While everything else is increasing in price, I appreciate that Sam's has left their roasted chicken at $5.00 and their chickens are huge.
DH and I get 3 meals out of them. And yesterday I made this pasta salad to go with it. When I was in Texas, tending to my mom's estate and cleaning out the house, the lady that cut her hair for over 40 years, brought this to me and I loved it. It's so good, fast to throw together, and the perfect addition to a roasted chicken.
Italian Pasta Salad
1 box tri-colored Rotini
broccoli
cauliflower
cheddar cheese, cubed
pepperoni
red onion
Zesty Italian Salad Dressing
*Boil pasta. Rinse and cool. Mix in remaining ingredients. Refrigerate for 1 hour. You can throw anything in here. Like olives? Toss a few in. Need to use those salad peppers? Perfect! A homemade dressing would be good too, but this is what she used and what I had.
This is the pasta I like to use
I love all the colors in this salad
And yes, we used paper plates.
This old ranch house doesn't have a dishwasher and DH and I needed to put another coat of Linseed oil on the flatbed right after dinner so paper plates it is.
Thankfully there are leftovers because tomorrow's spring-cleaning-in-the-chicken-coop-day for me
