Simple Lemon Pasta Salad! A Great Summer Dish!

Look ingredients and you guys aren't gonna believe this but look Second best kitchen helper ever. I did not actually call her in here this time She came in as soon as she heard me getting stuff ready. You might get promoted eventually little girl Third best kitchen helper ever of course in the living room as always even though the oven's not on Welcome back to snow dogs cooking where if I can cook it so can you? We have a family gathering happening tomorrow And I was looking for something a little bit different to make and I had some lemons and a few other things that I needed to use so we are going to make a lemony Pasta salad because you know, we're from the Midwest and pasta salads are a huge thing out here If you know, you know, so this is gonna be like a nice summery a lemony pasta salad What are you gonna need? You're gonna need 16 ounces of noodles of your choice. I am using rotini noodles You're gonna need a cucumber. We are going to peel and dice it and do all of those things You're gonna need two bell peppers, whatever colors you want. I'm going with a red and an orange I actually yeah, I'm gonna go with a red and orange That's what I want You could go like I said with whatever colors you want if you want to do green do green you can add onion to this That is optional. We have kids coming to the party. So I'm not gonna be adding onion You're gonna need some chopped fresh dill. You're gonna need about a half a cup of Parmesan cheese That's what's going in everything and then you're gonna need this stuff for the dressing You're gonna need a half a cup of olive oil. You're gonna need a six tablespoons of lemon juice I am using fresh lemon juice. You can also use the lemon juice that comes in the little bottle You're gonna need two teaspoons of honey. You're gonna need two teaspoons of Dijon mustard and then some Oh, no, where is it? Some garlic you're gonna want about a tablespoon of minced garlic so you can either mince up your own garlic or Use a tablespoon of that and then of course salt and pepper to taste So before I even go through and start boiling these I'm gonna go through and cut up all of my stuffs I'm gonna cut up my peppers first I know a lot of people have issues with cutting up peppers and how long it takes and all that stuff I cut the top off and now I'm gonna reach in here and I'm gonna twist and pull all the seeds out Twist it pull them all out. Check that out. Now. I'm gonna cut this in half. I have the two halves I'm literally just going to smash it flat to make it easier to cut and then cut it in my little strips That's it. Super easy. Oh Beautiful and cut up. We're gonna set that aside. Of course. I saved a couple of bites. Oh, look you're here This is you're learning Crunchy That's good stuff, huh? All right delivery to Kira ready for some crunch It's not a carrot. Oh, yeah, see yellow pepper Like my dad pieces a little big there's some crunch happening Good stuff Next I washed my cucumber. I will be dicing this up. This is an English cucumber So I am leaving the skin on I just wash it really well You can also peel it if that's what you'd like to do. So we're gonna dice this up This time I have to deliver to both of them because squirrel friend was here your first cucumber cucumber Good stuff, huh? Good stuff. We're gonna wash and chop up some dill At least like two tablespoons one tablespoons going in and one tablespoon is like for sprinkling on I'm gonna go ahead and wash my lemons and juice them with my favorite Juicer this thing is awesome. So I'm gonna wash these cut them in half Beautiful lemon juice. This smells amazing. I'm gonna set that aside Remember, I need six tablespoons. So I'll measure it out of that. That was two good-sized lemons Next I'm gonna get a little bowl for the dressing and I'm gonna put my water on the boil for the pasta We are actually going to cook this for as long as it says so this has 9 to 11 minutes I'm gonna do this for 10 minutes. Also, don't forget to salt your water Into the measuring bowl for the dressing we are going to add a half a cup of olive oil remember the lemon juice six tablespoons of this into here and I Just gonna measure it out. And if I have to do more lemons, I'll do more lemons My two big lemons was just six tablespoons and a little bit extra. So it's perfect Next we're going to add a tablespoon of minced Garlic or garlic Whatever one you like nobody's looking two teaspoons of honey, and I'm just gonna eye this because I don't want to I don't want to make a mess in a little spoon where it's not gonna come out two teaspoons of Dijon mustard as well Back to the dressing we're gonna go ahead and sprinkle some of this fresh dill right in here How much is probably about a tablespoon? We're gonna mix all this together and we're gonna do the thing where we set it aside. This is ready I'm gonna take it over here put it in here and drain it, but I am NOT going to rinse it I'm gonna let it cool for about 10 minutes noodles are gonna sit here and slightly cool for a few minutes Except for these two which I apparently got two different sizes come out here and you get a noodle Those ones I did rinse under cold water so they wouldn't be too hot. You are such a weird texture dog. It's a noodle Honey, I promise it's just a noodle. You've had many before And then a noodle sure how it's done Kira and you do for you that how it's done Eleanor is still eating hers. No, you gotta finish it. You ate half of it. Look it's a noodle Eat it or your sister will eat it So I let the noodles sit till they're pretty much cool to the touch now. I have a great big bowl Put them in the bowl do this We are going to add all of our cut up peppers all of our cut up cucumbers all of our Oh, wait, did I tell you how much of this yet a half a cup of Parmesan? I'm using that kind you can use fresh shredded. You can use grated whatever you would like now we're gonna take this dressing that we set aside over here and I'm going to pour half of it on to here and The rest of its going in the fridge half of it on to here and no I'm going to toss all of this Together remember, there's still half the dressing left but we're gonna put this into the fridge and we are going to chill it for at least two hours and Then right before you serve it you can put the rest of the dressing on it or after the two hours You can put the rest of the dressing on it either way, but I'm gonna keep tossing this This has been chilling like a villain for quite some time. I'm gonna go ahead and add the rest the dressing and give it another good stir and the salad looks Amazing. This smells so good. I cannot wait to try this It's like a lemon lemony summer pasta salad, it's got olive oil and Parmesan cheese and peppers And I've already been eating it. So I already know it's pretty good It's like summery and refreshing Lemon and Parmesan kind of go together Yeah That's different. It is it's not like any other pasta salad I've made Yeah, cuz I don't it feels like I want it to be an Italian You're waiting for the vinegar to kick right, right, but no, it's it's light Neighbors shooting off fireworks. Mm-hmm. It's pretty good. I like it No There's dill in it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's what you there is. There's fresh dill in it Yeah, and lemon and Parmesan. Mm-hmm. I always want more Parmesan. I like that one. Yeah, I like that too That pasta salad was a win if you like it a little bit more lemony You can go ahead and add a little bit more lemon at the end or maybe just serve it with lemons That's another thing you could do Jamie also really liked it with pepper added on it I didn't put any pepper in it, but he liked it with the pepper added on it. That was really good All right, you guys we hope you guys enjoyed today's video Let us know down in the comments below what you want to see us make next as always. Thanks so much for watching Thanks for subscribing stay positive dream big and we will see you again soon Yeah preview of another videos happening back there that one might have gone up before this who knows Well, I made three cooking videos today a little crazy. Yeah, I know but I got them done. Goodbye potty ants