{"id":7767,"date":"2016-02-05T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2016-02-05T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T22:28:42","slug":"pasta-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7767","title":{"rendered":"Pasta salads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P-pasta-salad-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P-pasta-salad-2.jpg\" alt=\"P-pasta-salad-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P-pasta-salad-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P-pasta-salad-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/P-pasta-salad-2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are pasta salads more a summer thing? Pasta salads were never in my repertoire until recently, when I hired a caterer for a political event and one of the dishes was pasta salad. It was good, so I resolved to add pasta salad to the competencies of the abbey kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cool things about pasta salad is that it&#8217;s a work of imagination. What have you got in the kitchen, and what can you do with it? The pasta salad above is artichoke hearts, a winter tomato, raw walnuts, roasted peanuts, and Roquefort. It&#8217;s dressed with a dressing that is sorta-kinda ranch.<\/p>\n<p>The previous pasta salad was a warm pasta salad with seared shredded cabbage, walnuts, peanuts, and a dressing that included toasted sesame oil and brewer&#8217;s yeast.<\/p>\n<p>Trader Joe&#8217;s, by the way, has canned artichoke hearts at a reasonable price. TJ&#8217;s also has proven to be my best source of affordable avocados that almost always ripen nicely. Even Roquefort (and other good cheeses) are affordable at Trader Joe&#8217;s. I&#8217;m aware that Trader Joe&#8217;s is disparaged by Californians as the Walmart of the grocery business. But shopping wisely at Trader Joes&#8217; (lousy produce!) can really stretch the food budget.<\/p>\n<p>Pasta salad should be a creative mixture of tastes and textures. Now if I can just stop myself from buying Bacon Bits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are pasta salads more a summer thing? Pasta salads were never in my repertoire until recently, when I hired a caterer for a political event and one of the dishes was pasta salad. It was good, so I resolved to add pasta salad to the competencies of the abbey kitchen. One of the cool things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pasta salads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}