Two years ago: Coconut Brown Butter Cookies One year ago: Saltine Crack Ice Cream Sandwiches Now that you’ve let me sound off, I am genuinely curious: What’s the worst pasta salad you’ve ever had and what’s the best? Pasta salad is for plates on your lap, picnic benches and plastic cups with condensation down the outside. (I used Setaro’s organietti but other brands call it radiatore). The best kind here will be short and easily stabbed with a fork, and have pockets where the nubby bits of walnut nirvana can hide out. It’s a little early for eggplant (I was impatient) but you could just as easily use grilled or roasted zucchini/summer squash, red pepper or even the last of the skinny asparagus.įinally, this might just be me, but my favorite thing is going to a store with a great selection of pasta shapes and picking something funky. I also find that the more exceptional the vegetable, the more you can dial back the proportion pasta, should you and carbs be wary of each other right now. The summer months are teeming with great produce, we should take advantage. Next, a grilled or roasted vegetable really helps make a pasta salad into a great lunch or dinner dish, and doesn’t have the aggressive crunch of raw ones. Don’t be put off by its unassuming appearance - this combination of toasted walnuts, olive oil, thyme, parmesan and a dab of minced sundried tomatoes is a triumph of flavor, I’m not surprised Frank Bruni once called it one of the best crostini in town and likened it to “crunchy peanut butter for grown-ups.” We talked about this walnut pesto for the first time way back in 2009 it’s from Jody Williams and it’s a longtime staple on crostini at the shoebox wine bar Gottino in the West Village. Two things help a lot, first, I like starting with a salad dressing we’ve loved and building it from there. Pasta salads get a bad rap but I find that the more I think of them as room temperature summer dishes and the less as mayo-slicked bowls of suspicion and dread, the more inviting they become, not only for cookouts and picnics, but (ahem) a gorgeous Tuesday night.
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