Summer basil salad

Yield: 6 Servings MMM

Ingredients:

1/2 c Sweet rice vinegar
3 ts Sugar (or sugar substitute)
2 ts Dijon mustard
1 1/2 ts Salt (optional)
2 Cloves minced garlic
1 1/2 ts Olive oil Pepper to taste MMMMM-----------------------SALAD FIXIN'S----------------------------
1/2 c Chopped green onions
1/2 c Chopped green yellow or red Sweet peppers
1/2 c Lightly steamed and cooled Green beans or asparagus
1/2 c Chopped carrot
1/2 c Chopped zuchini
3/4 c Golden raisins (do not Substitute
1/2 c Or more finely chopped fresh Basil
1/2 c Chopped fresh parsley Carbs:Use any of the following depending on how "McDougall-correct" (I've been learning a lot from you Barbara Z!) you want to be.
16 ounces dry fusilli (or any pasta

Instructions:

whole wheat is fine) boiled 1 cup dry brown rice cooked (don't know how much it makes cooked) combined with: 1 cup dry couscous (soak for 20 minutes in 1 1/3 cups boiling water) -or combine with any other grains such as quinoa barley or whatever you like ~I think this would also be delicious and nutritious if beans (white garbanzos black) were added to the pasta or grains-use your imagination and let me know how it goes! From: mingram@madam.west.sun.com (Judy Mingram - SunSelect) Fatfree Digest [Volume 9 Issue 8] June 30 1994 Formatted by Sue Smith S.Smith34 TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV