COLD PASTA SALAD FOR A HOT SUMMER EVENING

With the unaccustomed heat and a very busy day in prospect I took the precaution of making extra pasta yesterday and left it in the refrigerator over night to chill,this with a few additions made a tasty no cook meal for three this evening.


CRAB AND PRAWN PASTA SALAD

8oz pasta shells cooked and cooled

8oz fresh or tinned crab meat

8oz prawns fresh or frozen

4 spring onions finely chopped

half a pint of crème fraich

I small tin of sweet corn

1 tablespoon of chopped parsley

1 clove of garlic crushed with salt

9 cherry tomatoes halved

paprika

pepper

1 tablespoon of fish sauce.

Put the pasta in a large bowl, if the chilled pasta has stuck together separate it gently with a fork. Mix in all the ingredients except the paprika making sure that they are spread evenly throughout the dish.
Garnish with a sprinkling of the paprika and serve at once.
CHEESE APPLE AND WALNUT PASTA

If you prefer you may add to the same amount of pasta

8 oz strong cheddar cut in to small cubes

2 large red apples cut into cubes

4 oz walnut pieces

2 heaped tablespoons of mayonnaise

Mix all the ingredients together,top with the paprika of a good grating of black pepper.

Swarming ants by the back door and a nest or newly fledged robins have made for an emtertaining day, Winged ants by the hundred climbed up the wall and many came inat the door four spotty young robins made hay while thesun shon hoping in and out of the kitchen all afternoon.One sat on the back of Pa's chair and pounced on the soft bodied flyng ants,another sat on the top of the door and picked them off as the climbed the wall while the other two hoped about on the door mat where business was brisk.
I can think of no better way to while away an hour than in such charmingand amuing company