Easy Pasta Salad

How do you like your pasta? Do you like it hot with sauce? Or do you like it tossed salad style? You know what: why choose when you can have both? It’s perfect for barbeque, or picnics, or just as a side dish.

Here is what you’re going to need

1 bag of pasta

(The shape is totally to your preference)

1 jar of mayonnaise

1 pack of cheese spread or cream cheese (whichever you can find)

Salt to your liking

Pepper to your liking

1 onion

1 green bell pepper

1 carrot

½ cabbage

3 eggs

This will not take long, trust me. The preparation time will take anywhere from 20 to 25 minutes.

Instructions

1. Chop up your onion and your cabbage
2. Grate that carrot
3. Cut up your bell pepper and lightly sautée those on a pan
4. Get a pot of water ready and put in your eggs. We want them hard boiled so keep a close eye on the pot for about 10 to 12 minutes
5. While you’ve got your eggs going, take another pot and pour in some water for your pasta. When the water starts to boil, add a pinch of salt and toss in the pasta in accordance of your serving estimation.
6. Take a bowl and pour in about half the jar of the mayonnaise and half the pack of cheese spread. Mix well
7. Add salt and pepper to your liking.
8. Toss in your vegetables in the bowl and mix well.
9. When your eggs are done, take them out of the pot and put them in a bowl of ice cold water for a while. This should make peeling the eggs easier.
10. Check on your pasta. We want them al dente. When it’s done, take it and drain the pasta through a colander. Run it through cold water once more.
11. Add a splash of olive oil to your pasta.
12. Peel your eggs and smash them to bits with a fork. Then add them to the mayo and veggies bowl. Mix again.
13. Add your pasta to the bowl and give the bowl a final mix.

You can have it just as it as or you can chill it in the fridge. It is good either way.