Anybody have a cold-pasta salad recipe?

[Warpy]

35. Buttermilk dressings might come to the rescue, then

Buttermilk, lemon juice, garlic, and whatever else you want to throw in with a little oil for mouth feel, buzz in a blender. It's nicer than it sounds. You could do roughly the same thing with tahini, I often used that as a salad dressing base.

Other than that, you're stuck with vinegar and oil dressings and those, while they can be good especially if freshly made, don't tend to cling to the pasta and veg as well as mayo or other thick dressings. They'll work, but you'll have to keep stirring them up from the bottom of the bowl. Using a small amount of mustard or even lecithin as an emulsifier can help, but not much.

ETA: I'm not unsympathetic, I can't stand liver in any form, my throat closes up and I can't get it down, so I offered a couple of general ideas for you. It's hard to have to eat around common foods. You might play around with the buttermilk option and find yourself besieged with requests for the recipe. I was. Too bad I never made it the same way twice)