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This recipe<\/a>, from Cooking Light magazine, is really easy and is actually pretty tasty. Gourmet, it’s not, and it’s not terribly picturesque on the plate, but it is quick, kid-friendly and pretty healthy. Let me say however, that this recipe makes an OBSCENE amount, so, unless you’re having a party or have 8 kids, you should cut the batch in half (which would be easy to do). Learn from my mistake – we’re going to be eating this stuff for days.<\/p>\n I made a couple of adaptations: This was a big hit with Hubby, who will eat anything that’s even moderately “Tex-Mex-y”. Girl loved it, too. Boy was at a birthday party, where he had already eaten a burger, so he ended up not eating with us tonight. I think he’s also coming down with something, poor guy. If he makes it to school tomorrow, he’ll be having some of the leftovers in his lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This recipe, from Cooking Light magazine, is really easy and is actually pretty tasty. Gourmet, it’s not, and it’s not terribly picturesque on the plate, but it is quick, kid-friendly and pretty healthy. Let me say however, that this recipe makes an OBSCENE amount, so, unless you’re having a party or have 8 kids, you … Continue reading “Tex-Mex Pasta Salad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– I added 1 cup of frozen corn, zapped in the microwave for a couple of minutes to thaw, and then drained.
\n– I used cappelletti pasta, because I had it on hand and the only radiatore that I could find was HUGE and not even close to being bite-sized.
\n– I used ground beef, instead of turkey (ditto – I had it on hand).
\n– I garnished with a bit of sliced avocado and a cilantro leaf.
\n– I left out the olives, because 3\/4 of us don’t like them (Boy loves them, so I planned to add some as a garnish on his portion).
\n– I used halved grape tomatoes instead of the chopped tomato.<\/p>\n