Oh, this was a good leftover salad lunch. Crunchy fennel is so amazing with pesto!
Linguini Pesto Salad
Ingredients:
Leftover linguini with pesto (that was made with chicken breast and spinach)
Shredded zucchini
Chopped fennel
Chopped tomato
Chopped red bell pepper
Warm up the pasta, then mix it in with the chopped veggies.
This is a double leftover salad. I really liked it except for that squash! Texture and size of the pieces were too odd with the pleasing crunch of the rest of the salad. It was a fun idea, though, and pleasing to execute: scooping acorn squash out with a melon baller. I wonder what other salads [...]
I was in serious danger of making something gross when I was pulling out ingredients for this salad. We had a ton of tiny leftovers. Do you ever get a fridge full of these? The four bites left of something that you can’t bring yourself to throw away–then regret having later as they fill your [...]