Two Timing Hot and Cold Pasta

This is an awesome pasta dish because it is great hot and then cold from the fridge as pasta salad later on.  According to the pasta box you get 8 servings of pasta in a pound so this is about $0.25 a serving.

1lb rotini pasta	$1.00
1/3c Garbanzo beans	$0.15
1/4 c shredded Mozzarella cheese	$0.22
1 tbsp parmesan cheese	$0.10
Green onions chopped	$0.20
1 roma tomato diced	$0.22
2 tbsp olive oil	$0.16
total	$1.96

Also 2tbsp (apx) each Italian salad dressing, apple cider vinegar and red wine vinegar.  (I don't have prices on these)

Salt and pepper to taste, pinch each of basil, onion powder, rosemary, oregano and fennel.

Optional 2 tbsp red onion diced, 1 clove minced garlic, chopped black olives.

Cook and drain pasta return to pan, off heat.  Add about 2 tbsp of olive oil and coat well.  Add chopped green onions, and tomato stir until well blended.  Add in salt and pepper to taste and a pinch each of some herbs/spices to boost the flavor I used basil, onion powder, rosemary, oregano and fennel.  Then add a couple of tablespoons of any Italian salad dressing you like.  Stir well add garbanzo beans and cheeses and stir again.  Serve.

For the portion you intend to save add a few extra tablespoons of vinegar, I use cider vinegar, red wine vinegar and a little bit of balsamic.  You may want to add a little bit more salad dressing or olive oil as the pasta will suck up the moisture in the fridge.  

Sorry for not posting

So I haven't posted lately, I had a fight with my ice maker and though I won the battle I forgot that I took a container filled with packets of frozen hamburger out so that I could have some space in the freezer and ended up defrosting nearly a week of food.  Fortunately my fiance found it and popped it in the fridge before it went bad.  So it's been hamburgers and Manwich and tacos, which unfortunately had been featured recently in planned meals so I wasn't all gun ho to write it all up.  In addition I left a few things off the list or had shopping plans change and have a bunch of "doesn't work together" or "am missing an ingredient" to work with.  Blech!  While my typical answer to this is Spaghetti! or other pasta, I have some awesome frozen battered fish from Aldi and a packet of mashed potatoes.  Will get things back on track in the next few days.