Cold Pizza Pasta Supreme // Jeni Gough

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I'm Jenny and today I have a pasta salad for you. Now I don't know about you, but I love cold pizza

So I am going to do a cold pizza pasta salad supreme. I don't know, I was thinking about it

and eaten my pizza cold and thought, oh, this would be a great idea

So pull a chair up to my counter and let's get started. I have one pound of pasta

You can pick whatever shape you like. You know what? When I went to the store, this was in my mind that I really wanted to make something like this

and I'm trying to come up with a good recipe for it. I forgot to buy pasta

I would recommend a smaller pasta than this, but this is what I had in my cupboard

so this is what I'm using. So I boiled it till it was done, drained it, and I tossed it with a little bit of olive oil so it wouldn't stick

And I've been trying to let it cool off a little bit. So I've just been stirring it occasionally to make sure it doesn't stick

In the meantime, I have one can of sliced olives. And this is a 3.8-ounce can

I'm going to dump that in. I love olives. Whoa, getting out of control here

I am going to cut an onion. This is kind of like a small to medium-sized onion

I'm going to save those, put those in my freezer. I don't know that I'll need this whole thing. I was trying to find a tiny onion

Let's see here what this looks like. Oop, a peel. I just don't want it to be too onion-y

You know, I think I'm just going to leave that little bit, that half of an onion

I just don't want it to be too onion-y, too overwhelming. So half is good

Cheese. I have fresh mozzarella. I was at my store and I was looking for the tiny little balls of mozzarella

I always forget the word. The clingy, whatever. Anyway, I would rather use those, but couldn't find them

So here we are. Fresh mozzarella. These are already in slices, so these will pull apart

And I'm just going to toss them in. So whatever goes on your pizza, whatever you like, you can use in this

That's why I like making stuff like this that you can totally change it into anything you want it to be

You know, I don't know what you like on your pizza. I am one of those people that will eat almost any kind of pizza

I love it. Any concoction is good with me. Okay, so I'm going to use about half of this

I used probably a little more than half of that. Okay

Other cheese. Fontina. Do you know what else would be good in here? It's a smoked cheddar

I love Fontina on pizza. I also love smoked cheddar. So this is kind of a play on I absolutely love antipasta salad and I make a ton of different antipasta salads So this one is kind of like that

but more emphasized on what I would put on pizza. Okay

I have tomatoes. I'm using grape tomatoes and I'm leaving them whole. You know why? Once you cut

these things, they start to get a little soft. I don't want the soft in my pasta salad, the soft

tomato. Also, some of my kids won't eat tomatoes, so they will pull pasta salad out and leave the

tomatoes. And then my kids that love tomatoes will pick up the tomatoes. A bunch of fresh

basil that I just washed or rinsed, I guess you could say. Okay, I'm going to save a couple

for the dressing. You can line them all up

and chiffonade them all. I'm gonna dump that right into my salad

The other ones I think I'm gonna throw in with the dressing

And now I have a green pepper I think I'll probably use half of the green pepper

and I forgot to get some more mushrooms I dried all my mushrooms I don't have any left fresh so

I would have I would have definitely put fresh mushrooms in this salad I don't really want to

rehydrate them because they do keep a little bit meatier of a texture and in a cold salad I don't

know about that and I don't know if my kids would like that but so I'm just

gonna leave them out but when I write this recipe for you I will write them in

and then you can pick and choose what you want to put in what you want to leave

out of course Okay, half of the green pepper

I'm going to start stirring this up a little bit now that my pasta salad is getting huge

It smells delicious. It's going to smell even better when I get the dressing in

Alright, next thing I want to do is chop up some green olives

Here's my cute handy dandy olive spoon. You can get these on Amazon

Whoa. And a splash of olive juice. That never hurt anybody. especially me I love olives okay so I'm making it kind of all of you but it's so

good okay I'm just gonna go through and cut these in three might take me a minute

okay so about a quarter cup of green olives going in if you want more put

more If you don want them don put them in Next thing I putting in mine is pepperoni You can use whatever kind of pepperoni you like You can also use salami

You can also cook off some Italian sausage and then let it cool off

and then cut it in slices and add it in. That would be really good

so you're going to want a good depends on what kind of meat you're using

this knife is getting dull but you're going to want a good cup of meat i'm not going to put a

cup of pepperoni and that would be a ton i'm going to use a half a cup but if you're going

to use sausage and then mix sausage pepperoni ham you can put bits of ham in here you could

put bacon in here. Whatever you like on your pizza goes in your pasta. Okay, there's the meat. Let's

make the dressing. I have four plum tomatoes, and I took the core out already. I have water boiling

there. Hot, hot water. I'm just going to put a little slice in the bottom here

I just want to cook them a tiny bit A. to get the peels off of them

B. this is what I'm going to make my dressing out of Fresh tomato

Okay, looks like these guys are done I'm going to pull them out

I'm not even going to bother with an ice water I want them to be a little bit softer

to make the dressing In my blender I'm going to put my basil

this is probably a quarter cup of packed basil and then I have four big cloves of garlic I was

gonna peel them and put them in here but you know peeling them is harder than just doing this so

go in very carefully pick up your hot tomatoes take the peels off or throw them in I don't care

whatever you like some people like to just grind up their peels

you can also smoke your tomatoes I kind of want to smoke your flavor so I'm actually going to add

some liquid smoke to this just a tiny bit we'll see if we'll be able to taste it in the pasta salad

so this is my invention I didn't come across a recipe for this I don't know

I just like to kind of think of different things. And I make lots of homemade dressings with tomatoes like this

I am just going to put in some fresh cracked black pepper, some sea salt

a teaspoon of sugar, red wine vinegar, probably half a cup of red wine vinegar

A little bit more. You can put extra herbs in here if you like

Whatever flavors you like in your pizza. Okay

Smells delicious. Looks terrible. Has good garlic flavor. it needs salt half a teaspoon of salt

I am going to throw in a teaspoon of oregano I wish I had some fresh oregano

and then I'm going to put in a couple of squishes sprinkles

of ground time. You know what else? Oop. Sun-dried tomatoes. I just found these I forgot I had them in there I gonna throw those in you need the tomato flavor okay I gonna use a half a jar cuz that what I got left it all going

in I got a lot of pasta to flavor man Oh, yes

That is so good. Okay, I'm going to take this and pour it into the pasta

So it's almost tomato sauce-like. All right, let's get it stirred up

If you find that you need more dressing on your pasta, add more olive oil

I think it's good with the rest of the flavors. We don't need to overpower it

And of course when you're gonna eat this you know refrigerate it

But make sure that you bring it out of the refrigerator and bring it up to Well mainly room temperature

But let it sit for like 30 minutes before you serve it you want it to have a good flavor

All right And that is it it is done One, cold pizza pasta, cold pizza pasta supreme

Pizza salad pasta, I don't know. Call it what you want. Call it whatever you want, but you know what

I'm going to taste it because I don't know if it's delicious yet

I'm just assuming. I'm going to get a piece of cheese, some pepperoni

I'm gonna get too big of a bite and I won't be able to chew it

Okay, big bite. It does taste like pizza. Mmm

I love everything about this pasta salad. It's even better than I thought it was gonna be. Mm-hmm

When this marinade, it's gonna be even better. Oh yeah, it's just me and my pasta salad tonight

Mm, in the summer when it's really hot, I can just eat some cold pasta salad for pizza night

Alright, that's all there is to my cold pizza salad supreme. It is so good

I love anything that contains pizza ingredients. And you can put anything in it that you want or take anything out that you don't like

Anyway, folks, I hope you give this one a try. It's just in time for Memorial Day weekend

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