Comments on: Summer Squash Pasta Salad

By: kim

kim — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:32:43 +0000

Here is my favorite recipe for using our annual summer squash bounty. It is traditionally a side dish, but I love to add 2 cups diced chicken to make it a main dish casserole instead.

Summer Squash Casserole

6 cups sliced summer squash
1 diced onion
1 cup shredded carrot
1 can 98% fat free cream of chicken soup
1 cup lite sour cream
1 8 oz. package pepperidge farms herb stuffing mix
1 stick of butter or margarine melted

Place squash and onion in a pot of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Drain. Combine carrot, soup, and sour cream in a large bowl. Fold in squash and onion mix. In a seperate bowl combine butter and stuffing mix. Pat half the stuffing mixture into the bottom of a 9X13 pan. Top with squash mixture (and chicken if using). Top the squash with remaining stuffing mixture. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

This is insanely good! it’s the only way my kids will eat summer squash. It’s also a great dish to bring to pot luck suppers.

By: ure

ure — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:27:40 +0000

Have to try this recipe very soon. Looks and sounds fantastic.

By: Roni

Roni — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:27:51 +0000

Looks great! Glad you found me cause now I found you.

By: Mandie

Mandie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:28:12 +0000

WOW, that looks soooo yummy!!!! I am really hungry now, lol. You are a very frugal shopper, so rare these days. Your blog is great!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:58:42 +0000

This was fabulous! I made a few tweaks (I think I”m physically incapable of following a recipe to the letter-) I used bow tie pasta, cilantro instead of basil, didn’t have any tomatoes so left them out, then at the end added extra salt and garlic salt, plus some butter. even my 16 month old ate it!

By: Melinda

Melinda — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:56:12 +0000

That looks FABULOUS!!! I’m definitely going to try this… Wish I had planted parsley & basil this year. Last year I had so much a lot went to waste, so I didn’t do any this year (just mint, rosemary, and thyme). Figures – just my luck. LOL

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:48:14 +0000

That looks SO good. I’m hungry, and I should be headed to bed now!

By: Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:37:39 +0000

This looks and sounds fantastic. I bet it would even be delicious served hot with the chicken cut up like a pasta dish.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:14:13 +0000

OMG, I made almost the exact same dinner last night, check it out: http://copingwithfrugality.blogspot.com/2009/07/garden-veggie-pasta-salad.html

Great minds thing alike

By: Tosha

Tosha — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:09:45 +0000

MMMMM! Looks so good! Cant wait to try this, maybe tomorrow…