{"id":656,"date":"2025-03-16T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/creamy-bacon-tomato-and-avocado-pasta-salad\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:37:00","slug":"creamy-bacon-tomato-and-avocado-pasta-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/creamy-bacon-tomato-and-avocado-pasta-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Creamy Bacon, Tomato, and Avocado Pasta Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 slices bacon, chopped into 1-inch pieces<br \/>\n3\/4 pound (12 ounces) dried Rotini pasta<br \/>\n1 cup mayonnaise<br \/>\nJuice of 1 lemon<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon garlic powder<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon pepper<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoons dried dill (or 1 tablespoon freshly chopped dill)<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups tomatoes, seeded and diced<br \/>\n2 avocados, pitted and cubed<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCook bacon until crisp. Transfer to a paper towel lined plate. Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Cook pasta according to package directions. Strain. Run cold water over the top until the pasta is cooled.<\/p>\n<p>While your bacon and pasta are cooking, whisk mayonnaise, lemon juice, salt, garlic powder, pepper and dill together in a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Stir cooled pasta, diced tomatoes, and reserved bacon into the dressing. Toss to combine. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Right before serving add cubed avocados.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 slices bacon, chopped into 1-inch pieces 3\/4 pound (12 ounces) dried Rotini pasta 1 cup mayonnaise Juice of 1 lemon 1\/2 teaspoon salt 1\/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1\/4 teaspoon pepper 1 1\/2 teaspoons dried dill (or 1 tablespoon freshly chopped dill) 1 1\/2 cups tomatoes, seeded and diced 2 avocados, pitted and cubed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasta","category-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}