Pasta Salad Italiano

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 lb pasta (wagon wheel or "little flower" pasta)
• 1 (8 ounce) bottle italian salad dressing
• 1 (8 ounce) can black olives
• 4 ounces mozzarella cheese
• 4 ounces hard salami
• 1 pint grape tomatoes, washed and de-stemmed
• assorted fresh vegetable (chopped romaine, green or red pepper, italian green beans, sugar snap peas, broccoli or cauliflower)

Recipe

• 1 boil pasta according to package directions, making sure to keep it more to the firm side of cooked. no salt is needed, as the other ingredients have plenty.
• 2 drain pasta and run under cold water to cool; drain again and place in large mixing bowl.
• 3 cut mozzarella and salami into uniform small cubes, and add to pasta.
• 4 slice (or halve) olives, add to the bowl, along with tomatoes and any (or none)of the other vegetable choices.
• 5 pour salad dressing over all and toss to coat. tastes great if allowed to rest in refrigerator for at least two hours.