Confession Number One:  I hate pasta salad.  Always have.  Pasta salad is mushy and tastes like bad Italian dressing.  So you can understand my hesitancy in calling this dish that I absolutely love a pasta salad.  This salad hasn’t even seen a bottle of Italian dressing and its crunch-factor laughs in the face of all things mushy.

The one thing this dish does have in common with pasta salad is that it’s beyond simple to make.  Orzo.  Feta cheese.  Toasted pine nuts.  Dried cranberries.  Chopped arugula.  Olive oil.  Lemon juice.  Salt/pepper.  Done.  Confession Number Two: I’ve absolutely eaten a large bowl of this for dinner before.  So, here you have it, a pasta salad that is nothing like pasta salad.

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