Pasta Salad- Vegetarian

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Pasta Salad- Recipe adapted from Ina Garten, Serves 6 This Ina Garten recipe is made using Rotini (spiral-shaped) pasta and earned rave reviews from all the grown-ups in attendance at my daughter’s recent birthday party. Boil the pasta, cool, and add sun dried tomatoes, black olives, tomatoes, Parmesan Reggiano cheese, Mozzarella cheese, and dressing (super delicious!) made from sun dried tomatoes, red wine vinegar, capers, garlic and olive oil. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1/2 pound fusilli (spirals) pasta (I used Rotini pasta) Kosher salt Olive oil 2 medium sized ripe tomatoes, medium-diced 1 small can black olives, pitted and diced 1/2 pound fresh mozzarella, medium-diced 6 sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained and chopped For the dressing: 5 sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained . . . CLICK TO READ MORE

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Roasted Artichoke Hearts

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Roasted Artichoke Hearts -Recipe by Ina Garten. This is the first time I tried my hand at making artichokes at home. What I loved about this easy recipe was that there was no need to deal with fresh artichokes – no headache of cutting those artichokes. February is the month of birthdays at my place and the celebrations seem to go on without end. For me it’s a great time to experiment with different recipes. I served this as a salad to go with a baked shrimp scampi (again one of Ina’s recipe’s), store bought garlic bread and linguine. The salad was enough for 6 people and was a hit! The basil in the vinaigrette gives it so much flavor, . . . CLICK TO READ MORE

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