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Pasta Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing

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Ingredients
  

Roasted Corn

  • 3 cobs corn
  • pat of butter for each

Sausage

  • 1 cheese & parsley sausage ring

Pasta

  • 10 ounces orecchiette cooked and drained.

Hot Bacon Dressing

  • 6 slices bacon fried up and chopped
  • ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 shallot thinly sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves grated
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • Garnish
  • parsley chopped
  • 3 scallions sliced

Instructions
 

Corn

  • Season with salt/pepper. Add pat of butter to each.
  • Roast 35 mins in the oven (400°) on a foil lined jellyroll pan, turning occasionally.
  • Slice off the cob when done.

Sausage

  • Pan sear on both sides to brown and place in oven at 425 until finished cooking all the way though. Then slice.

Hot Bacon Dressing

  • Add the hot bacon into the oil (I used a mason jar) along with the other ingredients. Shake to combine.

Assembly

  • Pour hot bacon dressing onto the pasta and stir.
  • Top with the sausage and corn.
  • Garnish with scallions and parsley, if desired.