02 August 2013
Big bowl of pasta in San Anselmo
I had grand plans for this salad. I was going to use some canned mackerel and make it fabulous. In the end, it was simple and fabulous but with tuna instead...
There is something so satisfying about a cold pasta salad in Summer. I can't put my finger on what...maybe it's the balance of carbs, protein and veg...maybe it's good because there's no cooking involved and it gets better with time. Maybe it's the mayo. Pure Yum, whatever it is.
I love, too, that you can throw a bunch of stuff together and have a meal. This is a good "scraping the fridge" kind of dish.
For this, I looked around to see what we had and used up the rest of some elbow macaroni (I used regular for texture's sake), tuna, grape tomatoes, olives, water chestnuts and a whole lot of fresh parsley. Then I added some salt and pepper and just enough olive oil mayonnaise to hold it all together.
Coming back from yoga to a big bowl of this was amazing.
XO