Cooking with Bruce: bow-tie pasta

This is one of my favourite recipes, I'm not sure where I grabbed it, but it's quite versatile although I do stick to the recipe reasonably closely (it maybe one of Dave Burton's from the DomPost some years ago...).

Bow-tie pasta salad

225gm bow tie shaped pasta

1 small zucchini thinly sliced

1/2 red onion peeled and thinly sliced

1c pitted black olives chopped

1c crumbled feta cheese

1 large tomato chopped

1/2 c sun-dried tomatoes in oil thinly chopped

2c baby spinach washed and chopped

1 1/4c italian herb vinaigrette (see below)

Cook pasta

Combine everything into a large bowl and mix gently.

Italian Vinaigrette

usual 3:1 mix of olive oil and balsamic vinegar

some rosemary leaves

2t chopped basil

2t chopped parsley

1/2t ground black pepper

1/4t chilli flakes

1/2t sea salt

mix.

Me.