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Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad

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Are you enjoying this “Essentially Summer” Recipe series as much as I am?  I am so excited to try all these great “oily” recipes, especially Tara’s Cilantro Lime Rice!
With Summer comes swim lessons, trips to the park, vacations, baseball tournaments, and much more.  We are trying to soak up every minute of day light we can. Cooking and heating up my kitchen is not something I want to do in the heat of the day.  This is a recipe you can make in the morning or the night before.
Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad is a healthy, colorful and very flavorful pasta salad.
Warning: If you are taking it with you somewhere make sure you take several copies of this recipe with you.  It is a BIG hit!
Essentially Summer Recipe
Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups chopped zucchini
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow summer squash
1 cup  chopped red onion
3/4 cup chopped green sweet pepper
3/4 cup chopped red sweet pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 drop of Young Living Fennel oil (optional)
12 ounces whole wheat bowtie pasta
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 drop of Young Living Basil oil
1/3 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
1/2 cup olive oil
2 drops of Young Living Lemon oil
2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
Salt
Ground black pepper
Snipped fresh Basil (optional)
Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a roasting pan combine all of your chopped veggies. Mix olive oil & fennel oil, drizzle over veggies; toss to coat. Roast for 45 to 50 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring twice. Transfer to a very large bowl; cool.
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Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, rinse, and cool slightly. In a large bowl combine pasta and the roasted vegetables.

For pesto, in a blender combine garlic, cheese, walnuts, 1/2 cup olive oil, basil oil, lemon oil salt and pepper; cover and pulse with several on/off turns until well blended

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Add the pesto to pasta-veggie mixture, stirring gently to coat. Stir in cherry tomatoes. Season to taste with additional salt and black pepper. Serve at room temperature or store in the fridge until next day. If desired, sprinkle with fresh basil and cheese.

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Are you ready to jump in to this wonderful world of caring for your family with therapeutic grade essential oils?  The time is now!  Click here to learn more or contact the person who introduced you to the “Essentially Summer” blog recipe series!

Next up is Susan Heid.  She is making Meatloaf with oregano and basil!  My pasta salad will be a great side dish with her Meatloaf.  Yummy!

Be sure to check out all posts in the “Essentially Summer” blogger recipe series.  Thank you Myra for organizing this series.  I had so much fun creating an oily recipe.

Also check out all my other “oily” posts!

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Did you notice the Citronella Jar Candle in the picture above?

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Slice up a lemon and lime, alternate slices in a jar, pour citronella tiki torch fuel in the jar and then add a floating tea light…

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First-Aid Spray

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Summer is almost here and that means, bug bites, blisters and boo-boos are too, so lets prepare ourselves.  Mix this up in a small plastic spray bottle and keep it in your purse, swim bag, diaper bag….

First-Aid Spray

5 drops lavender

3 drops tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia)

2 drops cypress

Mix above oils thoroughly in 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Add this to 8 ounces of distilled water and shake vigorously. Put in a small spray bottle. Spray minor cuts and wounds before applying bandage. Repeat 2-3 times daily for 3 days. Complete the healing process by applying a drop or two of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oil to the wound daily for the next few days.

Teacher Gift

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The School year is almost over and EVERY teacher is in need of some serious relaxation time!!  Lets gift our teachers with some relaxation tools.

Whip up this great Lavender Bath Salt and put it inside a mug, with a tea bag and a chap stick (I will share the chap stick recipe in another post).

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Lavender Bath Salts

4 tablespoons Lavender Castille soap

1 bag of Lavender Epsom Salt (you can also buy plain, I mixed both)

15 drops of Young Living Lavender Essential Oil

1 tablespoon Vanilla

Mix the soap, vanilla and Lavender oil together, then add the Epsom salt and mix well!

I used clear treat bags to scoop it in and the put it in the mug.

 

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Citrus Bath Salts

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This is my favorite bath salt!  It is so refreshing and wakes me up on a groggy morning.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons Dr. Bronner’s Citrus Soap

8 drops YL Tangerine essential oil

8 drops YL Grapefruit essential oil

4 cups Epsom salt

Mix the soap and oils.  Pour mixture over Epsom salts. Mix well. Give as a gift or enjoy for yourself!

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Bug Off

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Bugs love me!  I hate bugs!!!

Most bug sprays smell so bad and are sticky so, I never want to use them.  This smells wonderful and is good for you.  It absorbs into your skin and is not sticky.  It is also safe and effective for your dog.

4 drops YL Citronella essential oil

4 drops YL Lemongrass essential oil

4 drops YL Rosemary essential oil

4 drops YL Eucalyptus essential oil

4 drops YL Peppermint essential oil

fill your spray bottle with witch hazel (about 1/4 cup)

shake, spray and enjoy!