On May 4, 3:56*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> 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.

Don't put them all in. If you cut up too many veggies, put into the
salad only what it needs, and save the veggies for some other use.
They'll last a day or two.

You're like my husband making cocktail sauce. He starts with
the horseradish rather than the ketchup, and wonders why he
can't make just a little bit of it.

Cindy Hamilton