This Pasta Salad Is so Tasty and so Filling It Can Easily Be Served on Its Own

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You will love this Loaded Pasta Salad Recipe, a classic macaroni salad, and easy, delicious pasta recipes idea. This dinner idea with pasta combines a salad classic with an Amish broccoli salad recipe. You can add a bit of onion if you want the recipe to be more pungent. This easy delicious pasta recipes is a good way to use up some leftover cooked macaroni and broccoli that you might have. You can use any leftover vegetable that you might have and make this pasta dish recipes one of your creations. The creamy Ranch Dressing recipe brings this whole pasta dish recipes together. This salad recipe is a meal on its own, with lots of broccoli and crispy bacon to satisfy any cravings you might have. This yummy recipe is complete on its own, or can be served as a side dish recipe.

Ranch dressing is a great addition to this pasta dish recipe. Ranch recipes are the type of salad dressing that is typically made from the combination of buttermilk, salt, onion, garlic, herbs like chives, parsley, and dill. Popular spices to add to ranch recipes include black pepper, paprika, and ground mustard seed. The spices are then mixed into a sauce usually with a mayonnaise base or another oil emulsion. Sour cream and yogurt are popular additions to the recipe. Ranch dressing had been the best-selling salad dressing recipe in the United States since 1992 when it surpassed Italian dressing.

Broccoli is a great addition to all sorts of dinner ideas with pasta. Anytime you can add broccoli to a recipe you know that you are doing something good for you and your family. Did you know that broccoli is not only healthy but considered a superfood? Superfoods are fruits and vegetables that are high in minerals and vitamins that you want to get into your diet on a daily basis. Broccoli is a vegetable that is part of the cabbage family. Broccoli resembles mini trees in its appearance. With an edible green flower head, that is eaten. Broccoli is an excellent source of vitamin C and dietary fiber. Broccoli is a vegetable that is great to eat on a regular basis as it is known to contain several nutrients that have strong anti-cancer properties. When you boil broccoli, it does reduce the levels of anti-carcinogenic compounds, so you want to steam it or eat it raw if you can. Other ways you can prepare broccoli to include microwaving, steaming and stir-frying are good suggestions.

Thank you to Judy at "The Midnight Baker" recipe site for sharing this another loaded pasta salad recipe. Judy is a retired mechanical engineer and widow, who switched careers and is now a food writer, professional photographer, and cookbook author. Judy lives near Woodstock, New York. She loves to entertain, cook, and share her recipes and tips. She is also a self-proclaimed bakeware addict and dog lover/rescuer. Some of the recipes you will find on her site include appetizers, beef, bread, brunch, cake recipes, chicken recipes, comfort foods, condiments, cookie recipes, dessert recipes, dips, dog recipes, everyday meals, pasta dish recipes, pork, salads and more. This easy, delicious pasta recipes is just one of the pasta dish recipes you will find on the site. Other pasta dish recipes you will find include a stroganoff casserole recipe, gourmet macaroni, and cheese recipe, fettuccine with clam sauce recipe, slow cooker spaghetti sauce recipe and so much more.*

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