Greek Pasta Salad

This Greek pasta dish was so easy and made so many servings, that we ate on it for three nights!  This dish is just as tasty as those boxed pasta dishes that  you can buy on the pasta/rice aisle at the grocery store and so much better for you!  Just for comparison sake, take for example Betty Crocker's Suddenly Pasta Caesar Salad.  It has way too many ingredients to even count, plus it contains artificial coloring!  Also, many of the ingredients listed were things I didn't even know what they were.  I just don't believe that our bodies were made to digests these foreign ingredients.  I would much rather put REAL food into my body, knowing that  my body knows how to properly break down, digest and use what I am feeding it!

Enjoy!
~Davis

Greek Pasta Salad
(slightly adjusted from the recipe in Publix's Family Style magazine)

 Ingredients:
-12 oz. dried whole wheat penne pasta
-2 cups cherry tomatoes, quartered
-1 medium cucumber, chopped
-1/2 cup green onions, sliced
-1/3 cup pitted black olives, sliced  (ingredients: olives, water and sea salt)
-1 cup feta cheese

Cook pasta according to the directions on the box.  When done, drain the pasta and run cold water over it.  Then transfer the drained pasta to a large bowl and add the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives and feta.

Ingredients (con't):
-1/4 cup olive oil
-1/4 cup fresh  lemon juice
-1 tsp. dried basil
-1 tsp. dried oregano
-2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
-1/4 tsp. (or more) sea salt
-1/4 tsp. pepper

Combine all of these ingredients and then pour the dressing over the pasta mixture and toss to coat.  While this dressing was good, next time, I think I might use this Homemade Greek Dressing recipe, as I thought it was more flavorful.

This is the perfect dish to make earlier in the day and stick in the refrigerate until dinner.  It sure makes the evenings less hectic when you can  prepare dinner a head of time!

Greek Pasta Salad