Lovely and tasty pasta salad for those hot days that you don’t really want hot food. Very simple, but yummie.

Ingredients :

• fusilli pasta
• cucumber
• little tomatoes
• Basil leaves (fresh)
• Lemon juice of half a lemon
• homemade pesto (recipe following here)
• smoked salmon on cedar wood.

 

Just cook the pasta as described on the package and cool it down using running cold water. Set aside for later use. For the cucumber, just cut it in half over the long side and use a spoon to remove the seeds. Now cut it up on long small bits (length of the fusilli pasta, roughly) and mix in the pasta. Also make the tomatoes as small as you like (I’ve cut it up 4 ways, but 2 might do if you have very small tomatoes. Also mix that in the pasta and now continue on making the pesto. When done, just add the pesto to the pasta and keep mixing it all well. Everything can be added to taste, no real measurements are taken here. I’ve added a handful of fresh basil leaves as well for smell and taste.

Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon and mix up well.

Now for the salmon, I’ve just added some salt and pepper to the salmon side and soaked a cedar plank in water. I’ve heated up the Q (WGA) and placed them together on the grill. The lid was not able to close completely due to the size of the plank, but that allowed for more heat, air, and thus smoke under the lid and the salmon was really really smoked and great of taste.

With your hand, just break up the salmon and add the pieces to the pasta as well. Keep mixing and your done.

Let it cool a little and enjoy your meal!