My daughter's graduation party is coming up, and I am making a pasta salad in which I have to feed our entire family plus a few others. Any ideas/helpful hints would be appreciated.
thanks.
Bevehrly I
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approx 10 lbs, add shrimp, imation crab meat red,green,yellow peppers. and scallions. You can also broccli floretts , italian dressing.
Amazing Grace
If pasta salad is going to be the main dish, 10 lbs of dry pasta, if a side dish, cut in half. 1 bottle of Italian dressing per pound...for the whole 10 lbs, add chopped chicken breast (3 lbs), tomatoes (3 lbs), finely chopped broccoli (2 lbs), sliced olives and parmesean or feta (1 lb).
You might want to make a 2 kinds to give people an option. Another type is Asian style. Asian (sesame, orange, etc) dressing with sliced almonds or peanuts, mandarin oranges, chopped fresh spinach or pea pods and shrimp or chicken.
sweetestaboo37
I think about 5-8 lbs. if there is going to be other things. Pasta salad is sometimes not a good thing at events.
Kacey D
yeah about 8 - 10 lbs of pasta.
TX2step
all of my recipes call for 1-lb of pasta for 8 servings of pasta salad.....so 9-10 lbs. should be right