Tortellini and Feta Salad

I hadn't made this salad for awhile so I whipped it up for dinner. It tastes light and good for those summer nights when you just don't want to heat up the house. Tonight I matched this salad with turkey italian sausage and a healthy serving of salad.

2 pkg dry Ronzini spinach tortellini
1 pkg of grape tomatoes (each tomato cut in half)
1 can of sliced black olives
1 pkg sliced fresh mushrooms, washed
1/2 cup fresh basil diced
1 pkg (6 oz) crumbled feta

Dressing:
Mix together

1/2 c olive oil
1 c rice vinegar
2 tsp garlic powder

Cook the tortellini until firm but still al dente. Rinse with cold water. Mix feta, basil, olives, mushrooms, & tomatoes. Add dressing and carefully stir pulling from the bottom to the top to thoroughly coat the salad. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or more to let the flavors marry.

Summer Salad and Chile

There we go again! Office talk...

Around a break table....have you noticed???? Some of the most mundane, weird, odd, everyday, embarrassing, incredible, kind, and mean conversations can be exchanged...

In mine we are all dieting ALL THE TIME...

So, I liked this little tidbit and wanted to share it here..

Take one cake mix, add one diet soda and mix on whip with your electric mixer at least 1-2 minutes (that can seem like a long time--sometimes)

Bake according to the box instructions.....easy, yummy

I made a white cake mix with diet cherry 7-up..very good
carrot cake with ginger ale...pretty yummy too...