Summer sausage in pasta salad?
"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 00:20:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>Would this work?
>>
>>I have a recipe that I have been making for years. It's basically a lot
>>of
>>different raw veggies, cut up unless they are small to begin with. Cubes
>>of
>>Swiss Cheese, slices of hard salami, fresh chopped parsley, olives,
>>Italian
>>dressing and large shell pasta. Angela found a similar recipe that has no
>>meat or cheese but beans instead and a different shape of pasta. So I
>>make
>>these types of salad several times a year, especially when I need to make
>>for a crowd.
>>
>>But what I have now and need to use up is some summer sausage. Would this
>>work in such a dish? I think I also might have some sort of salami but it
>>isn't the hard kind. I know that will work but it tends to break down as
>>the salad sits.
>>
>>If I do use the sausage, should I use a different kind of cheese and/or
>>dressing? I have a couple of chunks of good cheddar that I could cube up.
>>Just not sure how that would work with Italian. I also have Honey
>>Mustard,
>>Ranch and a simple olive oil and vinegar type. The natives were ripping
>>through salad like crazy and now that it's hot you'd think that would be
>>what they'd want. But no. Salad consumption has slowed and one of them
>>has
>>quit eating dressing again. At least the dressing I have was cheap.
>
> summer sausage and salami are birds of a feather. No reason why not
> to use either.
> Janet US
Thanks!
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