This looks really interesting.






Red White & Blue Pasta Salad Recipe


Container: large serving bowl

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Serving Description: approximately 1 1/2 cups per person

Servings: 10


Ingredients

- 16 ounces pasta (farfalloni, bow tie, or your choice of shaped pasta)

- 1 1/2 cups Italian (zesty) dressing

- 10 ounces canned chicken, drained

- 1 cup celery, chopped

- 1 pint fresh blueberries

- 1 cup sweet red pepper, chopped

- 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped

- 1 bunch green onions, chopped

- 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled

- salt and pepper to taste


Directions


Prepare pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse pasta in cold water.

In a large serving bowl combine pasta, chicken, celery, blueberries, red pepper, parsley, and onion. Stir to combine.

Pour dressing over entire mixture and toss until coated.

Sprinkle blue cheese on top. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.




What can you come up with that is red, white, and blue that is eatable?

Fourth of July wilted slaw.


1 Cabbage

1 lb. Bacon

1 or 2 onions

about 1/2 cup vinegar

up to a Table spoon of Sugar

Salt

Pepper


Shred,slice or Julienne the cabbage in to a large bowl

Dice the onion(s) and slice the bacon in to bit size bits

Fry the bacon down and remove from the pan sprinkle the bacon over the slaw then add the onion for a minute or two and lightly saute the onion in the bacon grease. Add about the same amount of vinegar to the onion as there is bacon grease while it is still hot. Add sugar, salt, pepper to taste. Then pour the hot vinegar/oil dressing over the slaw and toss.


I like mine a bit sour and don't use a lot of sugar.

 

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Patriotic Jello Poke Cake


White Cake Mix

Blue jello

Red jello (strawberry is yummy! raspberry is too!)

Cool Whip

Fresh Blueberries

Fresh Strawberries, cut in half


Bake the cake as directed, in a 9" x 13" pan.


When cake is ready to come out of the oven, make the jello as directed on the box. Once cake is out of oven, poke it with holes (either using a large fork, or I use the handle of a wooden spoon). Poor the jello into the holes (I try to do one row of red, one row of blue, and alternate colors) and chill cake for about 3-4 hours, or even overnight.


Frost cake with Cool Whip. Use strawberries for lines of the flag and blue berries for the blue star portion of the flag.


I make this every year, and its so good!

 

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I guess mine lacks blue.


May be a bit of cooked and chilled and diced blue potatoes as a garnish. Or perhaps some blue corn tortilla chips crumbled over it.

 

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