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Perfect Pot Luck Picnic Pasta Recipe

A fellow letterboxer brought a delicious pasta salad to our meet up in May. I begged for the recipe and she sent it to me. Whole package of tricolor spiral pasta Whole cucumber, sliced up and cut in half Whole plastic container of grape tomatoes, tomatoes cut in half Whole jar of pitted kalamata olives (make sure to drain the brine well before using) Whole yellow or orange pepper, diced Whole red onion, diced Bunch of green onions, diced Whole package of kraft crumbled feta cheese (I like the one with oregano) Whole small bottle of balsamic salad dressing (for the picnic, I used the real olive oil kraft version with fig - I like the sweetness of it) Cook the noodles and then mix everything together. It's nice warm, too - but let it chill in the fridge if you like it cold. If you're making it the night before (like I did), it's better to leave out the salad dressing until the day of then mix it in - the noodles suck up the dressing like crazy and it d