About Big Green Gourmet:

Welcome to Big Green Gourmet. Sam, I am and I am dedicated to improving your meals here at Dartmouth. This blog serves mainly to provide you with easy to follow recipes, which can be made using the food you get from DDS. My aim is to come up with new ways to eat the same food you've been eating, create some delicious dishes and encourage you to improvise beyond your standard Joe-Yo. BGG (Big Green Gourmet- for those of you who catch on rather slowly) is the place to go when you want to shake up your DDS selections. Leave comments about new recipes, improving the blog, or anything really…

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Fusilli Bean Salad


In light (pun intended) of the fantastic weather that we experienced over dimensions weekend (I am convinced that Thayer has a weather machine, and Dartmouth uses it solely for the purposes of making the weather over that weekend absolutely beautiful), I decided to make one of my favorite spring time dishes. Pasta salad is a staple BBQ food no matter where you go in the good old U.S. of A. But, in my family instead of a heavy, mayonnaise-y pasta salad, we keep it a little bit fresher.


You will need:

2 scoops of pasta (fusilli just happens to be the one they had)

Chick peas

Kidney beans

Corn

Balsamic vinaigrette


This one is a Collis creation that is relatively easy to make, and, it's perfect if you want pasta, but they aren't cooking it anymore (even though you can see them still cooking it for other people). Just go to the pasta line and get two cold scoops of pasta in a to-go container, then go to the salad bar and add in all of the vegetables. To finish it off, add the dressing (I like a liberal amount of dressing) and shake. Then enjoy your…


Fusilli Bean Salad, by DDS and Sam, I am.

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