Picnic Pasta Salad -- One Dish Meal

• Salad ingredients
• 1 lb macaroni, cooked and cooled (or other preferred pasta)
• 1 -2 cup diced ham (ham you cut from a real ham is leaner than lunch meat ham or other processed ham products)
• 1/2 1/2 lb diced swiss cheese or 1/2 lb diced provolone cheese
• 1/4 cup minced sweet onion (optional)
• 1 lb frozen green beans, cut in 1-inch pieces
• 4 -6 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
• 12 ounces marinated artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
• Dressing
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup olive oil or 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 teaspoon italian seasoning
• 1 teaspoon prepared mustard (I prefer Heinz brown)
• 1/4 teaspoon celery seed

1. Mix all salad ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. Whisk dressing ingredients together until smooth and well-blended.
3. Toss salad ingredients with dressing until well-blended.
4. Let sit, refrigerated, at least 4-6 hours, preferably overnight.
5. Note: Additional vegetables can be added substituted if desired. Frozen broccoli florets or chopped cucumber are particularly good. But if you add a lot of extra veggies you might need an extra half batch of dressing.
6. Note: It is not necessary to thaw the frozen veggies if making it the night before.
7. Note: Fresh beans, snapped to size, can be used raw for a crisper texture or they can be blanched and cooled first.

salad ingredients, macaroni, ham, swiss cheese, sweet onion, green beans, eggs, hearts, dressing, cider vinegar, olive oil, mayonnaise, italian seasoning, celery

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/picnic-pasta-salad-one-dish-meal-222660 (may not work)