Tenia's Chilled Pasta Salad

The appearance, texture and taste of this salad are pure SUMMER! I love that because of the ingredients, you don't have to worry so much about it sitting outside on the buffet table on a hot day. Easy, yummy and unique!

I just made this salad--the dressing is wonderful! I am not a fan of Italian dressing, so this will be a go-to dressing for me. I also heated the dressing, as suggested by others. I added tomatoes and cucumbers because I had them in the refrigerator. I also added some mozzarella as someone else also suggested. What a wonderful make-ahead salad for all year around. I will use it again.

Although it is not my favorite take on cold noodle salad - this is a good recipe. The dressing resembles French Dressing. I added cubed turkey and shredded cheddar cheese so that I could make a complete meal for our Sunday supper. If your a fan of French Dressing - you might enjoy this unqiue salad. Glad we tried it!

I make a variation of this. Instead of onions & green peppers, I use red, yellow and orange sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Sometimes I add broccoli too. Also, the dressing should simmered over low heat so the sugar dissolves. Everyone I feed this to loves it!

this recipe was great. I added cherry tomatoes, black olives halved and chunks of mozarella cheese for extra flavor.

This was tasty, but not spectacular. I added some crumbled bacon to it for some extra flavor and my family liked it a lot with that addition.

This recipe is not to my liking -- so sugary and other than that, no flavor. I ended up rinsing the pasta and starting over!

This was delicious. I didn't have wine vinegar so I used apple cider vinegar. My kids aren't big on veggies in pasta salad so I just added bacon cheese and tomatoes. It was a huge hit. I did take an earlier recommendation and heated the oil, sugar and vinegar just enough to melt the sugar and then added the ketchup. I added the bacon and cheese once the salad was cooled off. This is a keeper.

This is a good pasta salad, but you need to like your dressing a little on the sweeter side. I subbed seashell pasta as that is what I had on hand. I also added some red & orange peppers along with the green to add color since my pasta was not rainbow pasta like the recipe calls for. I do believe this is a recipe that is better if made the day ahead so that the flavors have time to meld. The dressing is sweet and if I make it again, I will cut the sugar in half and drop the vegetable oil down to 1/3 cup, but keep everything else the same. I’m always looking for new pasta salads to try and this was good, although sweet as written.

This was a yummy, light recipe. I will definitely make again and can easily add different veggies that are in season.

Very pleasantly surprised at how the flavors came together. The dressing ingredients sounds wierd, but it will topped it all of. Will definetily be using again!!

I felt this was too sugary/sweet tasting.

This was very good! What drew me to the recipe was the dressing...it's just like a dressing my grandma makes except we use worcester sauce in it but other then that it's the same! so I knew I'd love it and I did! I did however use some extra veggies...tomatoes, blk olives and vidalia onion instead of green onion. very good and different then the regular old italian dressing...thanks for sharing!!

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This was pretty tasty! I substituted splenda for the sugar and red wine vinegar for the white wine vinegar. Also, substituted vidalia onions for the green onions and 1 red and 1 orange bell pepper for the green one. Used whole grain wheat pasta. Turned out great for my diabetic husband. I will be making it again.

Nice, simple pasta salad. Husband liked it, so thanks for the recipe.

Awesome salad!

Although it is not my favorite take on cold noodle salad - this is a good recipe. The dressing resembles French Dressing. I added cubed turkey and shredded cheddar cheese so that I could make a complete meal for our Sunday supper. If your a fan of French Dressing - you might enjoy this unqiue salad. Glad we tried it!

Made this for my son's high school graduation party (tripled the recipe). I wanted a non-mayo based salad because we were having potato salad as well, and found this recipe. I received tons of compliments on it from the kids to the adults. I used red bell pepper instead of green (personal preference and what I had on hand), but that is the only change I made. I could see adding cooked, diced chicken, maybe sliced black olives - the possibilities are endless. Great recipe. Thanks for sharing.

I made this for Memorial Day. It went over very well. Noone complained that it was too sweet. I made exactly as written but added fresh spinach. I will make again!

Excellent! I followed other reviewers' suggestions, and added chunks of monterey jack cheese, grape tomatoes, and black olives. I would also substitute a yellow or orange pepper for the green one, just for color variation.

I made it for a pot luck lunch. I reduced the amount of sugar to 1/2 cup. I did not have the red wine vinegar so I used rice wine vinegar. It turned out very nice