SOUTHWEST PASTA SALAD

This recipe will knock your southwest socks off. My daughter brought it to a family cookout and gave me leftovers. It is so delicious that besides eating it at our cookout, I had it for supper that night and again for breakfast the next morning! The recipe is from Plays Well With Butter and is already compliant. My daughter only changed a few things to use the ingredients she had on hand.

The cookout was my first time meeting Dottie, my son's new pet pig. She was a rescue and had been neglected. She was so adorable and kindly ate our scraps! See below for some interesting information about pigs.

See the blog post for the recipe. Here's what my daughter did differently based on the ingredients she had on hand:

-Instead of whole wheat pasta she used Veggie Rotini
-Used chopped regular tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes
-Used green bell pepper instead of red
-Replaced black beans with pinto beans
-Her corn was regular, not fire-roasted

Dottie Tallio

Chart from V-dog Facebook page