[CFrance]

A cold pasta salad for the hot weather:

Greek salad dressing (mix 1/4 cup red wine vinegar, 1/4 cup lemon guice, minced garlic, 1 tsp dried oregano, salt, pepper, 1 cup olive oil--you won't need it all)

1 lb fettucine or linguini, cooked how you like it. After draining, put in bowl and add Greek salad dressing while pasta is hot so it will absorb some of the dressing.

Add: batons of red pepper and green pepper, sliced red onion, black olives, chopped tomatoes or sliced cherry tomatoes, cucumber if desired (we don't), small cubes of cheddar. Authentically it would be feta, but feta kind of disintegrates. Cheddar holds up. More dried oregano to taste. Sometimes we serve it with shaved parmesan.

The longer it sits in the fridge the better it tastes. It can be a side or a whole meal. Nice to take on a picnic because there's nothing in there that will spoil very fast.