Fresh Herb Pasta Salad

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There are plenty of recipes for poppy seed dressing so, if you don't want to buy something this is an easy one to improvise. I for one love reviews with substitutions because it's nice to know what else worked for other cooks. I look for opportunities to use my fresh garden herbs so this was a nice draw. It's a pretty salad anyway...and very easy to throw together. My crowd loved steamed squash and black olives along with haricot vert and grape tomatoes...we went heavy on the veggies. Can't go wrong if the dressing works.

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I have made this several times both for family and friends.(Children love it! What's not to like about pasta and vegetables? I have made it as the recipe states and changed it according to what is in my kitchen at the time. It is easy, delicious and completely adaptable to what you have on hand. If you don't like haricot verts, you can easily substitute sugar snap peas (or add them in with the haricot verts as I do. I now make this recipe regularly adding fresh chopped yellow, orange and red peppers as well as the ones in the jar. (I do not measure a thing when I make this recipe. I just eyeball it. This makes it so fast and makes for less clean up! I also add chopped celery and sometimes use regular chopped tomatoes, rather than the grape tomatoes, if that's what I have that day. I add tons of herbs from my garden, including mint, flat leaf and curly parsley, chives and basil. When serving it to company, I place edible flowers on top after tossing and it makes such a colorful presentation. Marzetti's poppy seed dressing is pretty preservative-free (xanthum gum?? considering it's store-bought.
Disregard all the negative press on this recipe and give it a try! It's fabulous!

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When I look for reviews about a recipe I need to know
1. are the measurements correct
2. does it taste good

none of you who commented here ACTUALLY made the recipe as listed, none of your reviews were helpful. Oy!

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I don't know why this got negative reviews. I made this last week and everyone loved it. I substituted bow-tie pasta for the tri-color rotini, grape tomatoes for the haricots verts, roasted chicken for the yellow peppers, marinated artichokes for the red peppers, oregano for the mint, black pepper for the marjoram, salt for the tarragon, and red wine vinegar for the poppy seed dressing. I also added Alton's herb oil from his Artichoke Pasta Salad. Delicious!!!

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I've found those both at a locally-owned store and at Trader Joe's. They are without a doubt more expensive but not quite as high as you think Peg. I'm with you and I don't think that kids would necessarily go for this. Apparently, Sandra uses the terms good, healthy, fast and economical and the only one she gets right is fast. Processed food is expensive and certainly not healthy. I've had cholesterol problems due to trans fats and they are still loaded with them. Convenience foods are also expensive. I use them, but I at least recognize I'm paying for some of the convenience by not always shredding my own cheese, etc. In all honesty, there are a lot of great recipes for really good food that is naturally quick to make and I cringe when I see some of these types of shows on a network that should be promoting cooking and food.

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Please. What malarkey. I'm guessing they're about, what, six or seven bucks a pound? For a salad at a kid's party? And find me a kid on Earth who actually likes fresh marjoram. Go ahead, I'll wait.

Oy.