Reviewed: Jan. 8, 2009

Good. Super quick and super easy... left out the parmesan cheese. Added some sliced olives and different colored peppers. Only used 1/2 bottle of prepared Season's Italian dressing.

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Chef4Six

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Monsey, New York, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2008

Very regular pasta salad. Nothing to extravagant about it. Enjoyed it though.

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LJHighby

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Reviewed: Nov. 20, 2008

Great recipe, very versatile. You can add just about any veggie. Way too much dressing though, I doubled the recipe and only used 1 16oz bottle for the double recipe and it was great.

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Jess

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Reviewed: Nov. 16, 2008

This was a great recipe, but I often end up adding too, so for me it was a basic. I used only one bottle of zesty italian low fat dressing. I also added green onion, 1 can rinsed and drained black beans, 3/4 c frozen corn, raw broccoli, zucchini instead of cucumber, small grape tomatoes instead of regular, red bellpepper, black olives and would have added frozen peas if I had them. I like mostly veggies in a pasta salad! :) I also added S&P, garlic powder and one elephant garlic cloves as well as some cayenne pepper. This is where I went just a tad overboard! So then I had to add some sour cream and shredded cheddar to tone down the cayenne, next time I'll go lighter on that stuff! :) Took it to a 25 yr anniv and everyone loved it!

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Norma

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Reviewed: Nov. 15, 2008

Great pasta salad! I used bowtie pasta and less Italian dressing. Also grape tomatoes. I added additional carrots and celery- this recipe is great in that you can ad lib as you'd like!!

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DIANE

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Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2008

I used California mix and red peppers instead of the suggested vegetables. Very tasty and easy to alter to your tastes.

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Reviewed: Oct. 12, 2008

I used this one as a starting off point for my own variation. What I added was: pasta, carrots, black olives, green olives (with pimentos), grape tomatoes (left whole), red pepper diced, parmesan cheese and newman's own italian dressing. everyone enjoyed it, and it was a great side dish for tailgating!

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Michelle H.

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Reviewed: Oct. 8, 2008

This was the first time I've made pasta salad and it was excellent. I'll definitely be making this again.

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Reviewed: Sep. 29, 2008

Refreshing! We used about 3/4 of one bottle of dressing as the other reviewers suggested (thanks!). We also left out the tomato and celery and added a little more grated cheese. It was a hit at the BBQ. Thanks for a great recipe!

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Reviewed: Aug. 31, 2008

I didn't have tomatoes, but did add jumbo black olives cut in half. I really liked this the first day and thought it would be better the next, but not so much. Would still serve again!

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Rene

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Reviewed: Aug. 27, 2008

delicious! i only used about 1 1/2 c. dressing, and i used whole wheat pasta. i also omitted the celery and used an entire cucumber and a red pepper as well.

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Reviewed: Aug. 23, 2008

I hate to give this recipe a 1, but I feel betrayed by the Allrecipes rating system. This is a disaster if you actually follow the recipe. WAY too much dressing. I should have read the other reviews. A good use of summer vegetables otherwise.

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xayide

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Reviewed: Aug. 22, 2008

The best pasta salad our family has eaten! DH doesn't usually care for any type of pasta salads, but he LOVED this one! The only thing I changed, was using just ONE bottle of Italian dressing. You can always add more at the time of serving. And, personally, we all felt that the one 16 oz. bottle was just fine! Very good! Thanks for sharing!

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Tammy

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Reviewed: Aug. 22, 2008

good--use 1 bottle of dressing

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Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2008

This had a really good flavor! I did use green onions instead of the others though :)

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Reviewed: Jul. 18, 2008

This was easy and tasty. I made as directed, except forgot the onions and parmesan - oops. I also only used 1/2 the called for amount for dressing. 1/2 the dressing is the right amount, as others have indicated. I made the recipe one hour in advance and when we ate it, it had a great taste (wasn't too overwhelming with the dressing). I had purposely made extra so we had leftovers and enjoyed it the next day as well. 27 hours later, the veggies were still crunchy and the pasta was still the appropriate texture, so you can definitely make it in advance, but you will need to refresh it with more dressing because the next day the dressing flavor was much less discernible.

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Reviewed: Jul. 14, 2008

I Loved This and it is way better then what I make and I loved the idea of Parmesan Chesse

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Seth H

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Reviewed: Jul. 4, 2008

This was good, but I only added about 3/4 of a bottle of italian dressing...2 bottles would have been way too much. I had leftovers the next day and added little chunks of ham and cheddar cheese to the salad...it was MUCH better that way. It was quite delicious anyway, but the meat and cheese added some extra flavor that I really enjoyed.

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