Jerry Avins wrote:
> On May 4, 12:58 am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> I made pasta salad tonight but as usual I wound up with waaaay too
>> much of it. Seems no matter what I do there is always too much. I
>> have different versions that I make. Basically there is the pasta,
>> fresh veggies cut in strips, slices, chunks or left whole depending
>> on size, olives and some kind of protein. Dressed with some kind of
>> Italian dressing.
>>
>> Tonight I used a quinoa pasta because it contains protein and also
>> added kidney beans and chickpeas for more protein. I only used black
>> olives but will add some stuffed green ones to my portion. The
>> vegetables are sweet peppers (green, orange and red), grape tomatoes
>> (safe ones), radishes, green onions, celery and cucumbers.
>>
>> I have leftover peppers, radishes and tomatoes. Only had half a
>> cucumber so that worked out well. Used part of the green onions for
>> my dinner tonight which was nachos. Yes! Nachos. So will have to
>> come up with a use for the leftover veggies.
>>
>> But when I began to assemble the salad, I realized I didn't cook
>> enough pasta for the amount of veggies I had. So I had to cook some
>> more and now I have a big bowl of it plus what I have packed up for
>> our dinner tomorrow.
>>
>> I like to use a wide variety of veggies in my salad. I guess that's
>> part of the problem. I have tried to buy things from the salad bar.
>> I can't always get what I want though and tonight I wasn't near a
>> store with a salad bar so made do with what I had and bought a few
>> additional things. And even when I do use the salad bar, I seem to
>> still wind up with too much.
>>
>> I did do better than I usually do. Most of the time I have a HUGE
>> bowl of it and eventually some gets thrown out because there is only
>> so much we can eat. I am hoping we can either eat this two days in a
>> row or maybe just come home and eat the leftovers rather than go out
>> to eat on Friday. But sometimes we just want enough pasta salad for
>> that one meal. So what's the trick for doing that if you are cooking
>> for just two or three people?
>
> Start with less pasta? Cut up less pepper? (Maybe leave out a color?)
> If not that, I don't get it.

I did start with less pasta. But then I had to cook more because there were
too many veggies in proportion to pasta. I like a lot of different kinds of
veggies in the salad and a lot of different colorsl But it seems that once
I put them all in, there is too much salad.