Cooking with Michy

Prep Time: 10 Min

Cook Time: 20 Min

Ready In: 30 Min

Ingredients

1 cup uncooked spiral pasta

1/2 pound ground beef

1 tbsp. taco seasoning

1-1/2 cups shredded lettuce

1 chopped tomato

1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup chopped green pepper

1/4 cup Catalina salad dressing

Tortilla chips

Directions

1. Cook pasta according to directions.

2. Meanwhile, in a skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the taco seasoning; cool.

3. Drain pasta and rinse in cold water; stir into meat mixture.

4. Add the lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onion, green pepper and dressing; toss to coat. Serve with tortilla chips.

Source: allrecipes.com

Review: Today we made taco pasta salad and is was amazing! We started off strong getting all our ingredients in order before any of the other group even had a chance. That allowed us to be very quick and efficient and get done early. We struggled with figuring out if the paste was done cooking, but after many tests and long cooking time the noodles were finally at the right softness to make the salad good. The one thing I would change is to be allowed to try some of the salad as is look so amazing and intriguing, I wish I could have had some. I learned to day how to prepare a salad that has some cooked parts and some non-cooking parts to result is an amazing cold salad. All in all is was a good day although not being able to try the salad. It was a very fun and enjoying class!