{"id":117,"date":"2007-05-30T18:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/pasta\/michelles-pasta-salad\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:16:50","slug":"michelles-pasta-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/pasta\/michelles-pasta-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle&#8217;s Pasta Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from one of our fabulous readers. Thanks to Michelle for taking the time to send in a submission for my grilling project!  She says that she brings this to potlucks, but always ends up coming home with an empty container. You know it must be good!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Michelle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pasta Salad \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>1 16oz. package garden rotini\u00c2\u00a0 (Aldi has usually)<br \/>\n1 bottle Aldi Fit and Active Italian<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00bd cup chopped red onion<br \/>\n2 roma tomatoes, diced<br \/>\n1 cup diced cucumber<br \/>\n1\/2 cup sliced baby carrots<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00bd pkg frozen vegetable blend (broccoli, cauliflower etc)<br \/>\n1\u00c2\u00a0 can black olives, sliced\u00c2\u00a0 (use 1\/2 can)<br \/>\nSalt and pepper to taste<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cook pasta according to package directions.\u00c2\u00a0 Drain pasta and allow hot water to collect in another bowl.\u00c2\u00a0 Rinse pasta with cold water to chill quickly and drain well.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile put onions and frozen veggies in the hot water from the pasta and let sit for a few minutes to soften onions and vegetables.\u00c2\u00a0 Drain well.<\/p>\n<p>Combine all ingredients \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you will not use the entire bottle of Italian dressing at first.\u00c2\u00a0 After chilling for a few hours, add the remainder of the bottle.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from one of our fabulous readers. Thanks to Michelle for taking the time to send in a submission for my grilling project! She says that she brings this to potlucks, but always ends up coming home with an empty container. You know it must be good! Michelle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pasta Salad \u00c2\u00a0 1 16oz. package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,28,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momadvice.com\/aldi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}