Fresh Spring Pea Arugula Pesto Pasta

I love a pasta salad, always. I feel like they’re one of the easiest things to throw together when I get invited to a gathering of some kind. And it’s always one of the first things that people gravitate toward. You want to show up with something that makes you feel proud. You want to show up with a winner of a dish! This is it.

The pasta salad is not super mayonnaise heavy, which I think everyone likes. There are some serious mayo haters out there (I am not one of them) but the pesto combined with the mayo makes it a nice balance.

The pesto is part arugula, part peas. It’s spring after all. I like to add those greens to the dish, too for some visual appeal. I also throw in cherry tomatoes for some nice color, but they’re entirely optional as I’m sure some of you aren’t getting tomatoes just yet.

Adrianna Adarme is a food blogger and author living in Los Angeles, California. She writes the blog A Cozy Kitchen, where she shares comforting, everyday recipes from her kitchen. She recently authored her first cookbook, PANCAKES: 72 Sweet and Savory Recipes for the Perfect Stack. She's a lover of breakfast, pie (and sometimes even pie for breakfast), corgis and cute things. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.