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Default Summer sausage in pasta salad?


"Pico Rico" > wrote in message
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> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 00:20:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>>>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.

>
> I love Salami, but detest summer sausage. Birds of a feather, you say? I
> think not!


I can't stand either one.