italian style pasta salad for a crowd

Ingredients

• 1 - 1 lb pkg frozen tri-colored cheese tortellini
• 2 cans artichoke hearts, drained and quartered
• 1 can cannellini beans or pink beans or garbanzo beans
• 1 can black beans drained and rinsed
• 1 pound button mushrooms cleaned
• 1 bunch scallions, sliced
• 1 small 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 medium zucchini, sliced and quartered
• 3 large carrots, sliced
• 1 to 2 large fresh sweet pepper, seeded and cut into 1 inch pieces
• 2 cups broccoli florets, raw or blanched
• 1 1/2 cups cauliflower florets,raw or blanched
• 5 to 10 cloves garlic, minced ( or to taste)
• 2 cups diced mozzarella cheese
• 2 cups sharp provolone, cut into thin sticks ( or your favortie sharp cheese)
• 2 to 3 cups pepperoni or genoa salami, cut into chunks(or both)
• 2 to 4 cups pepperonini peppers, seeded and sliced (italian vinegar peppers)
• 14 to 1/2 cups pignolis (pine nuts)
• 2 to 3 cups of your favorite italian salad dressing
• - salt and pepper ( to taste)
• - grated parmesan cheese or romano cheese
• - italian dressing