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More likely… the afternoon after… I usually like to make a pasta salad inspired by the one they serve at Relish, a delicious sandwich shop where patience is a virtue to live by.  The sandwiches take a little longer than they should because the staff abides by a strict 420 code (or whatever it is pot heads do) but you wait, patiently, because those little stoners sure do make a hell of a sandwich and in my opinion a pasta salad.

But the above story is totally unrelated because recently I tried something new… the reviews are mixed but lets just say there’s a solution to that.

Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad

Orzo is kind of like one of the really pretty trannies people always get tricked by on the Jerry Springer show – it really really REALLY looks like rice, albeit a big-boned rice, but rice nonetheless.  But it’s not.  Orzo is pasta, not rice.

And while it’s big for rice, it’s fairly small for pasta which makes it great for pasta salads if you want to throw in lots of other stuff.

Throwing in too much stuff may have been my downfall in this dish – but I’ll leave you to your own devices.

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