Summer Pasta Salad

Makes 4 side servings

Salad:
2 Cups uncooked spiral shaped macaroni noodles or other spiral shaped noodles
water
10 Ice cubes
1/4 Cup black olives, sliced
1/2 Cup Broccolli, chopped in tiny floretts
1/2 Cup red bell pepper, chopped
Dressing:*
juice of 1 lemon
1 whole red pepper (paprika)** from jar, diced
2 Tbs diced onion
1/4 Cup red wine vinegar
2 Tbs Balsamic vinegar
1 tsp Waldkreuteröl (Forest herb oil)***
4 Tbs Olive Oil
4 Tbs Vegetable Oil
3/4 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Pepper
1/4 tsp garlic powder
Directions:
In a small pot cook boil about 3-4 Cups of water. Add noodles to boiling water and cook until tender (a little past aldente). Strain noodles and place in cold water and ice cubes while you prepare the rest of the salad. Mix all salad ingredients together in a bowl. In a small bowl whisk together all dressing ingredients--please remember the Balsamic vinegar, it is vital to this recipe! Pour dressing over salad and mix. Noodles should be cool by this point; drain them in colander. Pat dry with a lint free towel so that they do not bring in too much water to the salad. Add to the salad and mix. If needed add some more salt or olive oil to taste and mix. The salad can be eaten right away or put in the frindge for 20-30 minutes (mixing about every 10 minutes) while you prepare other parts of the meal.

Personal notes: It has taken me 10 years to figure out this recipe...I am not joking. I ate a pasta salad from the grocery store's deli in Miami once, and have been trying to remake the recipe ever since with little luck. Last night I made it for the first time in about 3 years and it was almost the right flavor, but something was missing. I had read in another recipe that someone had added some Balsamic vinegar to their salad, so I decided to take a leep of faith, and that was the missing ingredient. I also discovered how important fresh onions are to vinagretts and the jarred bell pepper. It, of course, does not help that I had never heard of Balsamic vinegar until about 5 years ago.

*All dressing ingredients are absolutely necessary (see ***); please DO NOT substitute or it will not come out tasting right!
**This is a paprika that has been roasted, peel removed, and put in a jar with the ingredients being red bell pepper, vinegar, oil, salt, sugar, and water. This is not a sweet pepper, it is basically the red thing you find in the middle of jarred green olives, but in whole form.
***Waldkreuteröl (Forest herb oil) is not necessary for this recipe, it just gives it a little kick, do not substitue other oils with this oil because it has a very strong flavor that is not meant for this recipe.