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Pasta Salad

Welcome back to Chez Chefpo! 
Today, we have a wonderful pasta salad. This works great chilled or not, and accompanies nicely with stronger flavors. This recipe was actually supposed to be a replication of La Madeleine's Pasta Salad, but after making it several times, we felt that it has deviated enough from it since it really doesn't taste quite the same. However, it's still got the same idea: a simple, light dish that can stand on its own or be with a friend.

Pasta Salad


Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

  • 8 ounces pasta (preferably bowties)
  • 4 tablespoons pesto
  • 2 tablespoons Caesar dressing
  • 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, grated
  • 1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, chopped
  • 4 Roma tomatoes, seeded and chopped
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup green onion, parsley, or spinach, chopped
  • 1/4 cup (or about 1 ounce) olives, chopped

Directions:

  1. Cook the pasta.
  2. Mix all the ingredients and combine with the pasta.
  3. Chill and serve.
It's pretty easy, and you can make a lot of it at once. It also works with anything: chicken, steak, shrimp, whatever! 
With steak and some veggies!
With chicken cordon bleu and cheesecake!

As a side note, the pesto to Caesar to Parmesan ratio is 2:1:1 in the recipe, but there are some variations that are 1:1:1 for a lesser pesto taste. You can experiment with this to maybe make it closer to the La Madeleine flavor! Or just do it however you like it!

-Chefpo
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