I figure I’d better get this one out of the archives before summer is REALLY over (this coming after a post declaring FALL IS HERE AND REAL). Cold pesto tortellini pasta salad = perhaps the easiest summer salad to throw together. No fancy sauces, weird ingredients: pasta, pesto, veggies. Voilà!

I made this multiple times over the summer, either to take to a party or so Derek would quit complaining about lack of left-overs to take for lunch… This is so easy to throw together that even if we didn’t have it for dinner, I’d have tubs of it in the fridge for a few days of lunches! EASY.

This is one of those “throw whatever you have in it” kind of recipes: I typically stuck to cherry/grape tomatoes and sliced onions, as my staples, but also loved throwing in peas, corn, even spinach! You can’t go wrong with more veggies!