Summer Pasta Salad recipe that uses fresh seasonal ingredients! Recipe ingredients include cherry tomatoes, radishes, green pepper, lettuce and mushrooms! This is perfect for a healthy dinner or picnic lunch.
Summer Pasta Salad
Guys, it’s August 21st. We’re in the 20’s already! Soon it will be September! September…already? Don’t get me wrong you know I love Fall, Halloween and everything that comes along with it but there will be a few memories I miss from Summer.
It’s not over yet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be dramatic and romantic about the sweltering garden days of picking tomatoes, weeding out the boxes and nurturing seedlings to grow big and strong.
Healthy Pasta Salad
A basket full of harvest is one of the proudest things I could carry. Seeing the fresh colors of red, green, yellow and more topple over the basket makes me a happy girl. Although we’re picking tomatoes, lettuce, radishes and melons as the Summer continues, we’re also getting ready for the Fall garden.
Some plants have already been transplanted while others wait their turn downstairs for containers to be cleared away on the roof. There seems to never be a empty day in the garden, there’s always something that needs to be transitioned and moved in or out.
Mushroom Pasta Salad
Mushroom is one of my favorite ingredients to add to a pasta salad!
For this recipe here I’m really layering in freshness with cherry tomatoes, radishes, green pepper, lettuce and mushrooms! What a combo, right?
Enjoy the end of Summer with this Summer Pasta Salad!
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Summer Pasta Salad
PrintIngredients
- 12 oz penne pasta
- 1 pint of cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 green pepper chopped up
- 3 radishes chopped up
- 1 packed cup of lettuce chopped up
- 1/2 sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella
Instructions
- Prepare your pasta as directed. Drain.
- Put your pasta in a big bowl.
- Add your chopped vegetables, salad dressing and dried herbs.
- Mix together so everything is coated in salad dressing.
- Add in your mozzarella cheese, toss around.
- Cover, put in fridge to chill.
- Enjoy!
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Claire says
Going by too quickly!
Margot C says
So far, so good. We didn’t go anywhere, just puttered in our garden and watched movies.
Kelly says
I can’t believe it’s almost September already too! Love this pasta salad with all the fresh garden produce – it looks beautiful!
V Mal says
Summer has been great! Built my first raised bed at my first house and am enjoying my first harvest. It has been so nice to eat fresh and am already looking forward to a fall harvest. Now that school has stared its nice to bring in a fresh lunch to remind me of summer.
Carolsue says
Summer has been fun, but things are back to “normal” now. Still very hot, tho!
Darlene Grant says
Summer has been great but it went by too fast!
Helen @ Scrummy Lane says
Well, I’m all confused about the end of summer because it’s actually the end of winter here in Australia but it’s so lovely right now that I’m sitting in the garden soaking up the rays. When I go back to the UK at the end of last month the weather will be starting to go wintery though, of course … I’ll have 2 winters in a row, one not at all wintery and the other …. well, yes, it’ll be wintery!
Anyway, love the pasta! Love that you’ve added radishes and all those wonderful herbs … perfect for an end-of-summer lunch!
kristen mcclary says
my summers been going great got alot accomplished and enjoyed family time
Cynthia Rojas says
Garden has done magnificent in Asheville, NC this summer. Tons of tomatoes, greasy beans, and okra. Greasy beans are native to this area. Saving some heirloom seeds. Will send some up your way if you like.
Pat Walker Pinkston says
Summer has been good. Temperatures have been unusually mild this year, although we’re making up for it right now with triple digit heat indexes.
Amy (Savory Moments) says
Lovely pasta salad! My summer is going pretty well, but I must say that I’m totally looking forward to fall even more than usual this year!
Thalia @ butter and brioche says
wow this pasta salad looks amazing, loving all the vibrant colours going on! definitely craving a bowlful.
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A great use of summer produce, Pamela. Your pasta salad looks very fresh and inviting.
Karen D says
Have been working 7 days a week all summer. Looking forward to some time off this fall.
Shashi @ runninsrilankan says
I love this time of the year when you start featuring produce from your garden – this salad sounds wonderful Pamela!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says
This salad looks incredible! Girl this is beautiful and fresh indeed!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says
This looks like the perfect pasta to relish the last few days of summer with. Love all of the flavors in here, Pamela! Pasta perfection!
Anna Johnston says
Boom Boom… Bring it on, Summer cant come quick enough for me, it has been one long chilly winter. Absolutely cant wait to start eating all the amazing foods you have been suggesting…. AND being able to eat from my garden again, especially my tomatoes. YUM!
cheri says
Hi Pamela, summer has gone by way to fast, love this pasta salad!
Kristi @ Inspiration Kitchen says
I didn’t plant a garden this year, because I just didn’t have time, and I am sssssooooo missing summer tomatoes! Cold pasta salad is one of my favorite things too, so I’m sure you can imagine how much I wish I had this at my house!
Jen says
Summer is over for me as I just headed back to work!
Keri says
My summer is going great! The weather has been amazing!!
Consuelo - Honey & Figs says
Ohhh yeah I’m gonna miss my summer tomatoes dearly as well :'( They make such wonderful pasta salads, don’t they? This one looks definitely brilliant! xxx
Emma @ Bake Then Eat says
I am going deep sea for the next 6 weeks and I am definitely going to miss your wonderful fresh seasonal recipes but on the plus side it will be fall when I return and I will be able to see your fall garden in full flow 😀 Great looking salad unfortunately food on the ship is never this good….. or fresh!
Cathy Nicholas says
My summer has been pretty nice. My sister and her family moved back here from California. Yay! Bring on the family dinners! 🙂
Cindy @ Pick Fresh Foods says
I can’t believe we are nearly to September. I am getting quite worried about my tomatoes. I have lots on my plants, but they haven’t turned ripe red. Our weather isn’t cooperating. I’d love to have this salad for dinner. I love all the veggies!
Ashley @ My Midwest Table says
This is one pretty and tasty looking pasta salad. Yum! We got our garden planted late this year due to moving. Our tomatoes should be ready in the next week or so, and we picked our first zucchini last night. Yay!
How is it the end of August already?! We’ve had a great summer getting settled into our new house, doing landscaping projects and going to the pool. I’m trying to hang on to the last moments of summer. Although I’m ready for pumpkin season! 🙂
Norma | Allspice and Nutmeg says
I know I can’t believe September is around the corner. This is a great salad to end the summer. Delicious!
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
You can’t beat a fresh pasta salad in the summer.
barbara n says
My summer has been awesome! Lots of family and pool time with cookouts and games!