Greetalian Pasta Salad

This is an original recipe from Shonna.  Her family loves main dish pasta salads.  She has four pasta salad recipes that her family loves, so she makes one each week, rotating them.  This is one she made up and is the favorite of the four with she and her husband.  The recipe is just in her head and she varies it.  I sat in her kitchen recently and she told me how she did it.  I will do my best to get it in here as she told it to me.

Greetalian Pasta Salad

1 lb. pasta (she likes to vary the kinds) I always add another 8 oz box of edamame/mung bean fettuccine noodles and cook it according to directions on the box. This adds amazing texture!

3/4 cup quinoa, cooked according to directions

1/2 c. Kalamata olves, quartered

1 cup artichoke hearts, quartered

1 small jar sun-dried tomatoes, chopped

3-4 cups spinach, chopped

1 bunch basil, chopped

1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese

Dressing

3/4 cup red wine vinegar

2 tsp. each of dried basil, parsley, oregano

1 1/2 tsp. garlic powder

3/4 tsp salt or to taste

pepper

2 tsp. honey

 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1/3 cup olive oil

Put all but oil in a blender and blend about 5  seconds.  Then slowly pour in the oil, streaming it slowly until it is incorporated.

Put 2/3 over the salad.  Store in the fridge and add the rest of the dressing right before serving.