6 cups cooked pasta
20 cherry tomatoes, halved
4 oz lemon, garlic & oregano feta crumbles
10 jarred pepperoncini, drained and chopped
1/3 cup grilled or boiled corn
8 thin slices sopressata, cut into strips
salt
freshly ground black pepper
white wine vinegar
Directions:
Toss together the pasta, tomatoes, peppers, sopressata, feta salt, pepper and corn. Drizzle with vinegar to taste.
My thoughts:
OMG, it is hot here in Baltimore. We have spent most of the summer hovering in the 90-100 degree area. Normally we’d get a few HOT days but we’d get some cool(ish) days in-between. However, it has been hot, hot, hot nearly every day and without the benefit of being a student (or teacher, I actually liked this policy more when I was teaching than as a kid) of getting out of school if it hits 90 before 11 AM. Now I just work at home and break a sweat as I wash the dishes. I’ve taken to doing tricks like the one I did with this salad and trying to cook once and eat twice. I boiled an extra amount of pasta for dinner so I could make this pasta salad without cooking at all the next day. Which, really, is more important than you’d think when living in a 1930s, non air conditioned house in the city. The summer is prime panini weather so I always have panini ingredients on hand and used them to create this Italian deli inspired salad. Easy + tasty. Win-win.
Yum! This sounds really good!
Sopressata is the thing that makes it most difficult for me to be vegetarian. This looks delicious!
One quick question: I see you said pepperoncini in the ingredients, but in the picture, it looks like those little pickled jalapenos, not Italian pepperoncini. Which did you mean?
Hi Gabi,
It is sliced imported Italian pepperoncini in both the photo and recipe.
What I wouldn't do for a nice dish of this right now.
Holy yum! This looks truly delicious.
Looks really tasty. I hope to give it a go real soon!