Emily's Cooking Blog

As our last salad lab we made Taco Pasta Salad. This was a tricky dish with many elements that we took two classes to complete. Something that went well was cooking the pasta and the beef. Instructions were followed closely and both turned out perfect. One thing that did not go so well was tearing the lettuce into bite sized pieces. Once again, most pieces were either too big or too small. If I were to do this recipe again I would make sure to tear the lettuce the correct size the first time instead of having to do it all twice and use up valuable time. Something that I learned in class was that you should rinse the pasta after you drain it to prevent it from sticking after it is cold. This was necessary because the cafeteria would not want to serve pasta that was sticking together. This lab was lots of fun to make and I can wait to make it again.