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Picnic? Tailgate? Potluck? Gotta bring the good stuff! With this recipe you can enjoy yourself without doing damage to your weight loss program. My wife's trick is to kick the flavor up a notch while using healthy alternative ingredients. We brought this dish to a block party last week and it got rave reviews. And it only took 30 minutes to prepare, from start to finish. FRIENDSHIP PASTA SALAD (12 servings) COOK PASTA. Bring a 4-qt pot of water to boil and toss in a handful of kosher salt. Add 16 oz. dried whole grain (we prefer organic) pasta (fusilli, gobetti, chioccioli or elbows, shapes which will capture the vinaigrette flavor). While water comes to boil, make vinaigrette and then prepare ingredients. Cook until chewy (7-10 min) and drain. MAKE VINAIGRETTE. Whisk together: 3/4 tsp kosher salt, fresh pepper (to taste), 1/2 tbs Dijon mustard, ¼ cup white wine vinegar, 1/4 cup grapefruit juice, juice of 1/4 lemon, 1/4 cup olive oil (add more if preferred). Vinaigrette should be tart because it flavors a large amount of the pasta. PREPARE INGREDIENTS. 6 chopped green onions (including greens), 12 large sliced pimento-stuffed green olives, 3 chopped pickled artichoke hearts, 1 cup garbanzo beans (if canned, rinse and drain first), 1 chopped red bell pepper, 1 large shredded carrot, 1 cup broccoli flowerets (cut small), ½ cup crumbled feta cheese. MIX SALAD. When done, drain pasta quickly and transfer to large bowl. Immediately toss thoroughly with vinaigrette to embed flavor before the pasta cools. Mix in ingredients. Refrigerate until serving. If you plan on making this a day in advance, mix everything but the carrot and broccoli; add those ingredients just before serving. Obviously, the major substitute ingredient is whole grain pasta. In contrast to refined-grain products, whole grain pasta is a complex carbohydrate, contributing fiber and nutrients to the diet without the rapid conversion to sugar characteristic of regular pasta. A cup of whole grain pasta has minerals and trace elements, 5 grams of dietary fiber and 6-10 grams of protein. It's quite tasty in this recipe and a whole lot better for you. If you can’t find the whole grain pasta you’re looking for, try one of these online sources: Purity Foods, Hodgson Mill, and Bionaturae.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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