Pasta Salad

Everyone has their favorite version of pasta salad and this is mine. I never use bottled dressings since they are full of nasty genetically engineered ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, soybean and canola oil, and msg and preservatives. It's fast and easy to avoid the bottle'o'chemicals and make your own dressing. I find it amusing that most of this salad is healthy raw veggies loaded with vitamins, antioxidents and phytonutrients, and most people turn their noses up at a bowl of raw veggies. But throw a few noodles in and it's Yay, pasta salad! and it dissapears quickly.

Pasta Salad

In large bowl combine:

1 box whole wheat or tri-color rotini, cooked and drained and rinsed under cold water

1 english cucumber, peeled and diced

2 tomatoes, diced

small head of broccoli, chopped

1 small red onion, diced fine

1 green pepper, diced

1 yellow pepper, diced

To make dressing, combine:

1/3 c. olive oil

1/3 c. red wine vinegar

1 tsp. dried basil

1 tsp. dried oregano

1/2 tsp. dried mustard

1/2 tsp. sea salt

1/8 tsp. black pepper

Whisk together, pour over salad, toss to mix and chill.