{"id":456,"date":"2009-04-29T01:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-04-29T01:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:31:32","slug":"my-ode-to-pasta-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/my-ode-to-pasta-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ode to Pasta Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh how I love a great pasta salad.  My mom always makes pasta salad in the summer; it is an old standby in our household.  Her version is delicious, but it could probably add up on the waistline a bit.  It isn&#8217;t that bad, but she does love to put chunks of cheese in it and lots of dressing.  So over the years I have made my own versions of pasta salad and usually try to make them on the lighter side.  I find it to be very subjective and I love that about it.  You can make a million different versions and adapt it to practically anyone&#8217;s diet restrictions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With summer in the air; yes I do realize it is only April but in south Florida we don&#8217;t really have a spring.   So with summer in the air I decided to make a good old pasta salad for Greg and I.  As some may know, I have really been trying to take some weight off, tone up and get Greg and I back on a more healthful and balanced diet.  So I made this pasta salad with whole-wheat pasta and I went light on the pasta and heavy on the veggies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As I mentioned earlier, I think pasta salad is very subjective so I have decided not to post an exact recipe.  I figured this entry could serve more as inspiration than as a definite idea.  So please, add what you like&#8230;.have fun with it!  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever made a pasta salad the same way twice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This past time I used the whole-wheat pasta, broccoli florets, zucchini, carrot, red onion, black olives, pimento, homemade Italian dressing and Italian seasoning.  It was light, satisfying and deliciously summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-457\" title=\"pasta-salad\" src=\"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pasta-salad-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"pasta-salad\" width=\"430\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pasta-salad-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pasta-salad-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how I love a great pasta salad. My mom always makes pasta salad in the summer; it is an old standby in our household. Her version is delicious, but it could probably add up on the waistline a bit. It isn&#8217;t that bad, but she does love to put chunks of cheese in it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,31,25,12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easy","category-healthful","category-pasta","category-vegetables","category-vegetarian","category-zucchini"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietwoshoes.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}