Fascist Pasta Salad

[trystinn]

A perennial favorite in our home, here's my Fascist Pasta Salad

Two boxes Rotini tri-color pasta, cooked
2 Kielbasa sausages, toasted
*enough garlic to be smelled from your driveway
Italian salad dressing
4 sticks of butter
optional: sliced black olives (best if serving cold)

Cook pasta until al dente, drain off water. In a medium sauce pan, melt four sticks of butter. When melted add half a bottle of italian salad dressing, add garlic and italian seasoning. When combined, place off to the side and go outside to stand in your driveway. If you cannot smell the garlic, go back inside and double the amount, continue until you can smell it outdoors.

Mix sauce into pasta, toss well. Add additional Italian seasoning until pasta appears "dirty". Dice kielbasa, and toss in. Go back outside - can you still smell the garlic? If not, add more.

Serve warm or cold, as desired. Garnish with freshly grated cheese, our preference is a four cheese blend. Serve with fresh-baked focaccia for total carb-whore menu. Great with a moderate chianti (too light won't stand up to the garlic, too heavy and it will overpower the kielbasa).

Comments

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

OMG - I will definately have to try that. Josh will eat a salad if its roughly half cheese and half meat.

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Well, I had hot Italian sausage in the house, not kielbasa, but I tried a smaller version of your recipe. I also used freshly grated Pecorino Romano.

OMG my stomach hurts. I ate too much. Had to force myself to stop!

Just one question: Why "Fascist"?

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Italian seasoning, Italian herbs, Polish kielbasa. It was a jest Josh made in passing and it just sort of stuck.

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Let's not forget some Spanish olives . . .

(Oh yeah, I used Kalamata and huge green olives - sliced - in mine. Also tossed in some cooked broccoli. It was soooooo good!)

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful :)

I like my spanish olives plain and right out of the jar.

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Greek cracked green olives. That's my version of "crack." I could eat them like peanuts. Kalamatas with sauteed spinach and garlic, served over linguine.

Cream cheese and olive sandwiches!!!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I like olives in every shape and form, but prefer them raw and straight up.

For mushrooms, I like them fresh and raw, dipped in melted butter and dusted with freshly grated asiago.