Today we’re making pasta salad. Again. But different! A new one! This is not a “every vegetable in the crisper” pasta salad and it’s certainly not an “antipasto platter in a bowl” pasta salad. In the pasta salad world I’m living in, pasta salad is a focused and thoughtful assembly of a few ingredients, all treated a little differently– in this case, burst, jammy tomatoes, vinegar marinated onions and crumbles of hard, salty cheese (if you want), and a very cool, extremely special secret ingredient (it’s sun-dried tomatoes). This pasta salad is meant to be enjoyed as a side dish, with grilled chicken, or perhaps a hot dog. Welcome back from the 80s and 90s, sun-dried tomatoes, we (and all our pasta salads) have missed you.


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RECIPE URL https://anewsletter.alisonerom....an.com/p/secret-ingr


CHAPTERS
00:00 Secret Ingredient Pasta Salad
00:34 Don’t treat pasta salad as a dumping ground
02:23 The secret is sun-dried tomatoes!
03:54 Cook it, drain it, dress it
06:20 Quick, brief, extremely rapid tomato saute
09:46 Don’t throw away that sun-dried tomato oil
12:55 One “hour” later…
14:00 That’s a pretty dope pasta salad


CREDITS
Director: Daniel Hurwitz (@dannyhurwitz)
DP: Dennis Robert Thomas (@dennisorthomas)
B-Cam: Sean Ryan
Audio: Yves Albaret (@yvesarmand)
Editor: Rick Symonds (www.ricksymonds.com)
Culinary: Rebecca Firkser (@rebeccafirkser)

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Welcome to pasta salad season! A far cry from the boring, bland, under-dressed and over-pasta’d pasta salads you may be used to, this is one you’re going to want in your rotation all summer long. This one tastes like summer and is filled with all the perfect produce in abundance this time of year. There’s jammy zucchini, toasty walnuts, peppery scallions, a little spice, a lot of lemon, briny capers, fresh herbs, and basically an entire block of parmesan.

It’s long weekend-ready, but it’s also an excellent summer stoop lunch, beach snack, a showstopper at any potluck, and a dinner party go-to. It’s pasta salad post-makeover montage: a little more sophisticated, a lot more layered in texture and flavor, and just really, really delicious. Everything you could ask for and more.


RECIPE & INGREDIENTS:
https://anewsletter.alisonerom....an.com/p/pasta-salad


VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 Opening
0:24​ Home Movies with Alison Roman intro
0:30 Intro to the Memorial Day Pasta Salad
2:17 Boil and salt the pasta water
3:09 Toast the walnuts in oil then set aside
4:03 Chop the scallions and fry them in the toasted walnut oil
5:04 Slice the zucchini and add them to the frying pan
7:45 Thinly slice additional scallions and set aside
9:00 Cut (not grate) parmesan into chunks and set aside
10:18 Drop the pasta into the boiling water
11:09 Add capers to the skillet
11:49 In a large mixing bowl, add scallions and grated garlic
13:10 Drain the pasta and rinse with cold water
13:31 Add the pasta and zucchini mix to the mixing bowl and toss
13:46 How to travel with and finish the pasta salad


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VIDEO CREDITS:
Director: Daniel Hurwitz
Editor: Matt Maltese
Director of Photography: Dennis Thomas
Sound: Brian Cushin