italian style pasta salad for a crowd

Ingredients For italian style pasta salad for a crowd

• 1

  1 lb pkg frozen tri-colored cheese tortellini
• 2 can

  artichoke hearts, drained and quartered
• 1 can

  cannellini beans or pink beans or garbanzo beans
• 1 can

  black beans drained and rinsed
• 1 lb

  button mushrooms cleaned
• 1 bunch

  scallions, sliced
• 1 sm

  red onion cut into rings
• 2 to 4

  sun dried tomatoes, chopped fine
• 4 to 6

  fresh roma tomatoes, seeded and sliced
• 1

  10 oz, pkg frozen italian green beans,thawed & drained(or fresh ones blanched)
• 2

  roasted bell peppers,sliced or diced
• 1 can

  black pitted olives,drained
• 1 jar

  stuffed olives, drained
• 1 md

  zucchini, sliced and quartered
• 3 lg

  carrots, sliced
• 1 to 2 lg

  fresh sweet pepper, seeded and cut into 1 inch pieces
• 2 c

  broccoli florets, raw or blanched
• 1 1/2 c

  cauliflower florets,raw or blanched
• 5 to 10 clove

  garlic, minced ( or to taste)
• 2 c

  diced mozzarella cheese
• 2 c

  sharp provolone, cut into thin sticks ( or your favortie sharp cheese)
• 2 to 3 c

  pepperoni or genoa salami, cut into chunks(or both)
• 2 to 4 c

  pepperonini peppers, seeded and sliced (italian vinegar peppers)
• 14 to 1/2 c

  pignolis (pine nuts)
• 2 to 3 c

  of your favorite italian salad dressing
• salt and pepper ( to taste)
• grated parmesan cheese or romano cheese
• italian dressing