Your Pasta Salad Will Be Instantly More Flavorful With One Extra Step - Chowhound

Everything in your salad should be extra bite-sized to avoid guests having to take massive mouthfuls just to get more ingredients at once — for example, rather than using rigatoni paired with whole cherry tomatoes and whole olives, shrink the pasta type and slice the tomatoes and olives into quarters. If cooking up some bacon adds a hint of savory to the dish, crumble it, rather than chopping, to ensure it makes…