Chicken Pasta Salad

Ingredients

▪ 1 box shaped pasta

▪ 1 head of broccoli, chopped

1 cup frozen peas, thawed

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▪ ½ pkg mini pepperonis (regular size is ok, too)

3 Monterey Jack cheese sticks (snack sticks) cut into chunks (you can

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use any kind of cheese, but we always have these around, and it is

easy to just slice them up!)

3 medium carrots, chopped

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Ranch dressing (We use the packet to make our own…much better

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tasting)

Instructions

1.Cook pasta according to directions on the box. Drain it.

2.Place colander with drained pasta into a bowl with ice and water in it to

cool it off.

3.Put all the rest of the ingredients, except the ranch dressing into a bowl.

Pour the cooled pasta onto a clean towel and really dry it off.

Pour pasta into the bowl

there’s no exact science to it.

. Stir in the ranch as you like it. A little, a lot—