Pasta Salad
We had fried chicken the other night, and I wanted to finish the chicken off and thought eating it cold would hit the spot. Something about cold fried chicken, it is better cold than it is reheated. I wondered aloud what would be good to go with it and Mrs J went right straight for baked beans and a macaroni salad. I can do that.
Mrs J was thinking elbow mac but we didn’t have any, there were some medium shells that I thought would work. I set those to boil and pondered dressings. We have a bottle of balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing that I wanted to try and that put me in mind of olives and olives reminded me of the roasted red peppers we still have. A rib of celery for the crunch and a few capers for the salt and we were good to go.
I like plenty of fresh ground black pepper on mine, and some grated Parmesan would have worked wonderfully.
Posted on November 12, 2011, in JeffreyW, Recipes and tagged balsamic vinaigrette, capers, celery, cracked black pepper, olives, pasta salad, roasted red peppers. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Oh, yum. Cold fried chicken and pasta salad, a little bit of summer. And for the record, I love shells, they hold all that extra dressing.