This recipe is in my summer rotation. I grill the chicken earlier in the week when I'm cooking for another meal, so it is quick and easy to throw together at the last minute. The A1 gives the chicken a different taste, not the "same old, same old". I do use less dressing. There are never any leftovers. This is a nice change of pace when you are tired of all your other summer chicken recipes.

This was ok for us. It is a good start with some unique ingredients but for me the flavor just wasn't there. After tasting the salad, I added alot of cracked pepper and a bit more salt. I also like the option of putting in cut-up hard boiled eggs instead of avacados as suggested by another reviewer and next time will do that and add some cooked, chopped bacon. It needs some more seasonings in the dressing, the ranch just disappears into the noodles leaving very little flavor. All in all, I was happy to have found this recipe, I enjoyed many of the ingredients, I will just tweak it next time. Thanks for a new recipe!

Not much flavor, not a unique taste and avocado goes bad real quick. Maybe I have weak taste buds because I don't understand why everyone else thought this had such great flavor.

I always make the recipe, first, as it is presented. This time, I only omitted the 'shrooms because I just don't like any kind of mushroom. Anyway, it was a little bland. Perhaps go heavier on the dressing...I like the idea of adding artichoke hearts...didn't really notice the bouillon making much of a difference. I'd try this a gain with some tweaks.

Here are a few tips to make this salad better if you think you will have leftovers (otherwise the leftover will be mushy and kinda icky): As mentioned in the recipe, be sure to cook the pasta al dente. Instead of using cherry tomatoes, use roma tomatoes--cut in half, pull out and discard the seeds and pulpy middle, and then chop the 'shell' part. Use the slices of avacado as a garnish or sprinkled on top of only the amt. you plan on serving. Otherwise, it gets not only mushy but brown 24 hours later. I made this 3 days ago and the texture of the leftovers are perfect--as though I just made it but better because the flavors have had time to mix.

I've made this a few times substituting hard boiled egg for the avocado. It has great flavor and always seems to go over well :)

This was really good. My daughter actually made this and it came out great! Served it with a nice roll and it was a fantastic light dinner.

To call this salad "the best" is a little ambitious, but it is good, and definitely worth making. I substituted only one of the avocados for a can of artichoke hearts to be a little more health conscious, and used Kraft's Light Done Right Ranch. hint: almost any light dressing loses a lot of its inherent ickiness if tossed in salad and not plopped on top.

Yummy. Just plain YUMMY. This might be my new summer-cookout-dish that I bring to picnics and BBQs!! I followed the recipe almost exactly, however I didn't have a fresh tomato so I used a can of pasta-ready tomatos (not the full can, about 3/4). Next time, I might just buy the ready-prepared chicken fajita meat instead of marinading and grilling the chicken myself. The avacado is a must-have on this recipe!

It dawned on me as I was throwing this together that it isn't that much different than the pasta salad I just started throwing together years ago. I used cherry tomatoes, cukes, onion, a little avocado (3 of the 4 i bought were bad...*sigh*) chicken, whole wheat rotini, and a lowfat homemade ranch...good stuff. i miss it with cauliflower though, i would have added it but I wasn't in the mood to pay $3 for a head of it. All in all...good stuff!

Not a fan. The only thing I changed to the recipe was that I used the low fat ranch. I felt the salad lacked flavor, and it was deffinitely not the best I've ever had.

So very good! I used whole wheat pasta and it was just as good. Also added carrots and black olives. My boyfriend is a chef and it got his approval! Definitely make again!

a good basic recipe. would add more avocado next time

Created this first for son's Kindergarten graduation celebration. People who love onion will love this. I used larger, thinner slices to pick out. Have made it twice and homemade ranch is better! People ate it up with raves.

FANTASTIC!! I used McCormicks Montreal Steak Marinade on the chicken which was a nice light flavor.

I love avocado so love this recipe. Need to plan ahead because when you buy avocados it usually takes 4 days to ripen.

Excellent!! I took it to work and it was devoured. It probably could use a little salt or possibly red wine vinegar.