Salad Recipes and Pasta Dishes? Anyone have some ideas?

I make pasta almost everyday bcause I live in Italy. My recipes are: pasta with beans, pasta with tuna and green olives, pasta with mushrooms, pasta with simple tomato sauce, pasta with shrimp, pasta with butter and parmesean cheese, pasta wit zucchini flowers and shrimp, pasta with broccoletti(little broccoli), pasta with clams, pasta with salmon and cream, etc, etc. I have alot. My husband doesn't eat meat, so that's why I didn't include meat pastas. If you're interested in a particular recipe--just let me know.

our pasta dinners are pretty simple. but we use ground turkey & whole grain pasta. lately we've been using organic sauce too.

if i want to spice it up I add shrimp instead, or turkey sausage... and any of those ways is better baked, just throw some low fat motz on top or some low fat cottage cheese in the mix & you have psuedo lasagna.

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Hi, one of my favorites is any type of mixed greens with sliced strawberries, walnuts, red onion, feta, with Brianna blush wine vinaigrette dressing. A good chicken salad is diced grilled chicken breast, diced cucumber, green onion, tomatoes. The dressing to pour over chicken mixture is 2 tablespoons olive oil mayo( or plain yogurt), small garlic clove minced, along with whatever herbs you like(chives, parsley,dill, cilantro) add black pepper. You can eat this in a wrap, on a bed of greens and even on angel hair pasta. Enjoy!

I love making pasta salads. I just cook up some pasta (don't need a lot because there's so much other stuff) grill some chicken and pick whatever is ripe in my garden and throw it in there with some shredded cabbage, romaine lettuce and/or baby spinach. Sometimes I'll throw some beans in there, too, for extra fiber and protein. Maybe just a touch of cheese for flavor. (Dried fruits, nuts and hulled pumpkin or sunflower seeds are good too.) Then just whip up your favorite dressing or find something online that looks good and go for it.

Lately, I've had a lot of tomato pasta salads, because that's the only thing in my garden (besides my herbs, lemons and oranges) that's producing right now. (Southern California) I should have tons of stuff in a couple of months, though!

Sometimes, if I'm in a hurry or low on fresh produce, I'll throw some frozen vegetables into the boiling pasta water about a minute or two before I drain the pasta. Then I rinse and cool and throw it in the salad.

Pasta with Rapini - skip the cheese to make it healthier, doesn't need it anyways.

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2012/04/pasta-with-garlicky-broccoli-rabe/