Peas & Pasta Salad; 35,000 emails

This is an old-fashioned salad… Sort of.

My mother would have / could have made this salad. She would have used canned peas and Miracle Whip but you get the idea.

I needed a salad of some sort for our bike ride picnic. Since I hadn’t been to the store or market in over a week I was left with staples.

That’s easy: frozen peas and pasta.

I’ve already made this again….

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Peas & Pasta Salad

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Serve room temp or chilled, this is a quick and easy summer side or addition to your picnic.

• Author: Kate
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes
• Total Time: 25 minutes
• Yield: 2 servings 1x
• Category: Pasta Salad

Ingredients

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• 1 cup (3.5oz, 100gr) bite-size pasta
• 1 cup (4.5oz, 130gr) peas, frozen, no sauce,
• 1/3 cup Greek olives, sliced
• 1/3 cup (1.5oz, 45gr) shredded cheese
• Dressing:
• 1 tbs Dijon-style mustard
• 3 tbs mayonnaise
• 5 tbs Greek yogurt

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Instructions

• Cook pasta according to package instructions.
• Add peas for the last minute.
• Drain and rinse lightly with cold water.
• Put mustard, mayonnaise and yogurt in a large salad bowl and stir to combine.
• Add pasta, peas, olives and cheese.
• Stir well and serve.

Notes

Adding Greek or plain yogurt to the dressing makes more dressing while keeping the ‘mayo’ flavor. A calorie cheat!

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
• Calories: 531
• Sugar: 7.5 g
• Sodium: 636.9 mg
• Fat: 27.5 g
• Saturated Fat: 7.6 g
• Trans Fat: 0.2 g
• Carbohydrates: 49.9 g
• Fiber: 6.4 g
• Protein: 19.1 g
• Cholesterol: 33.5 mg

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Red & Green Bean Pasta Salad is also a great picnic choice.

There is a reason I never went sky-diving. Knowing myself as well as I do, I envision me enthusiastically jumping out of the plane, and, seconds later thinking…. did I grab the parachute?

I really do try to remember to do things in the proper order, but, sadly, too often I’m in a rush for reasons that are rarely important.

Add in the fact that something has been working perfectly well for years so what could go wrong…

I have 12 email accounts (blog, 2 sites, other valid reasons). 3 of them are gmail accounts.

I use an ’email client’ which downloads my emails onto my computer.

The 9 other accounts are, apparently, set-up properly and are working as expected. The gmail accounts were not.

The problem arose last week when I could no longer download my emails.

I could explain all this but, really, who would care? I’ll just get to the point of this story.

My gmail accounts required periodic house-keeping which I neglected. When I attempted to fix my problem I ran into another problem. I had rather a large number of emails stored in my gmail accounts.

The first one I checked wasn’t bad – a little over 100 emails.

The 2nd surprised even me with over 10,000 emails that needed to be dealt with.

The 3rd account had over 24,000 emails.

Apparently I had neglected it for awhile.

For obvious reasons I didn’t chose to go through them all. I did a mass delete and am hoping I didn’t lose anything important.

I believe I have fixed the problem for the future.

Google and I should both be happy.