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With the gorgeous weather now here, we are spending lots of time outdoors at picnics, BBQs, and other outdoor parties. These events are the perfect time to enjoy delicious recipes, like bacon corn pasta salad, that take advantage of fresh produce and seafood.
Fresh From Florida and the Florida Department of Agriculture guarantees fresh and delicious food that makes every recipe a win. I like choosing ingredients that come Fresh from Florida because I prefer to buy as locally as possible. Seasonal ingredients grown in Florida include blueberries, tomatoes, sweet corn, watermelon and seafood which are some of our favorite things to eat during the warm weather months. These ingredients are perfect for using in summer recipes like these:
Watermelon Goat Cheese Salad // Blueberry Mojito // Grilled Corn Cakes // Roasted Tomato Goat Cheese Pizza // Spicy Pan Noodles with Shrimp
One of our favorite ways to use fresh produce and seafood is in picnic friendly pasta salads. This one combines fresh corn, tomatoes and shrimp with a delicious herb and oil dressing.
Tomato Corn Pasta Salad Ingredients:
16 oz penne pasta
4 ears sweet corn
1 pint tomatoes, halved
3/4 lb cooked shrimp, peeled
Dressing:
1 tsp dry mustard
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
3 tsp oregano, finely chopped
2 tsp dried basil
Let’s Make It:
1. Cook pasta according to package directions for al dente. Drain and set aside to cool.
2. Cook corn and remove kernels from ears of corn. In a large bowl, combine cooled pasta, corn kernels, tomatoes and cooked shrimp.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together mustard, vinegar, oil, oregano and basil until fully combined. Toss with pasta salad. Refrigerate until ready to eat.
This pasta salad is so perfect for lunches or any kind of outdoor event you may be going to over the course of the summer. The herb dressing is the perfect addition to all the fresh flavors of the corn, tomatoes and shrimp that are Fresh from Florida.
What are your favorite summer foods? Do you try to use as much fresh produce in your recipes as possible?
- 16 oz penne pasta
- 4 ears sweet corn
- 1 pint tomatoes, halved
- 3/4 lb cooked shrimp, peeled
- 1 tsp dry mustard
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tsp oregano, finely chopped
- 2 tsp dried basil
- Cook pasta according to package directions for al dente. Drain and set aside to cool.
- Cook corn and remove kernels from ears of corn. In a large bowl, combine cooled pasta, corn kernels, tomatoes and cooked shrimp.
- In a small bowl, whisk together mustard, vinegar, oil, oregano and basil until fully combined. Toss with pasta salad. Refrigerate until ready to eat.
oh those shrimp make my mouth water!! Thanks for sharing on What’s for Dinner!
This looks absolutely delicious. Definitely saving for a cool summer dinner. Found you from #bloggersgetsocial!
This looks like the PERFECT summer dish! Those shrimp look perfect!
That looks so delicious!! will have to try it on my family!!! Thank you
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I’m a huge fan of pasta salads and this one gets my stamp of approval! Super yummy!
Yumm, Looks good. Will give it a try. Thanks for sharing
I live in Florida too and love all the fresh produce and seafood! This recipe looks delicious and so perfect for summer! Thanks for sharing it with us at Share The Wealth Sunday!
I just bought a bunch of baby shrimp (great sale) on a whim and they’d be perfect in this! Lovely, lovely salad! Thanks for sharing this with us at Throwback Thursday this week!
Mollie
What a delicious and easy recipe! Thanks for sharing on the Best of the Blogosphere linky party!
That looks amazing! Now I wish I had some tomatoes on hand because I have everything else and I can’t wait to give this a go! Thanks so much for sharing at Throwback Thursday!
Looks & sounds yummy. Thanks for sharing at the #InspirationSpotlight party. Shared
Thanks for sharing this w/ us at The Wednesday Roundup link party. It’s been chosen as a feature this week – yay! Congrats. It will be pinned to our party link board and our personal boards too!
Thank you for sharing this awesome delicious food recipe, I tried but not proper make it. keep it up always sharing with us.