Hello, friends! I hope you are all doing well! It’s been a good while since I’ve posted—in fact I believe this is my first post this summer and the season is almost over! Where did the time go? It’s been a great summer but a very hot one, too! So, partly because things have been busy and partly because it’s been so hot, I haven’t been cooking or baking as much! But I did make this Chickpea and Veggie Pasta Salad that I wanted to share with you—no baking required! And the only cooking involved is boiling the pasta! 🙂

This pasta salad is great as a side dish, but it also works as a main dish for a simple lunch or dinner. And it’s a tasty item to bring for a potluck too. In addition to chickpeas, it also has black beans, a good array of chopped veggies, some Pepper Jack cheese, and a simple dressing—all tossed together with some rotini pasta. Just top it all off with some freshly-chopped basil and serve!

If you prefer meat in your pasta salad, you could also add in a few cups of chopped cooked chicken, turkey, or ham into this mix of ingredients. It’s an easy recipe to make, but keep in mind that it does involve chopping up some veggies, so allow enough time to do that! Also, this recipe makes about 9 cups of salad, which I estimate to be about 8-10 servings as a side dish. If you are serving this as a main dish, it might be more like 6 servings.

There’s still some weeks of summer left, so I hope you have the chance to enjoy this salad before autumn comes around! Although we’ll miss the long, sunny days of summer, there’s a lot to look forward to in the fall. Not only that, we also have the promise that beautiful summer will come again! As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night (Genesis 8:22 GNT). So let’s enjoy every last bit of summer and look forward to all that is ahead! 🙂