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Necessity is the Mother of... Internet Recipe #?

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I made a new recipe this evening for dinner, and it was generally well received!  Here's the original:  Italian Chicken Pasta Salad But I seldom have on hand exactly what a new recipe calls for, so here's what I ended up substituting: For the cucumber - nothing, sadly I have no cucumber, currently. For the cherry tomatoes - chopped normal-sized tomatoes. For the salami - sliced pepperoni slices. For the roasted red pepper - 3 small roasted sweet peppers leftover from a batch I made last week. For the elbow macaroni - a new lentil pasta I found at Costco. 20 grams of protein/serving! For the Nicoise olives - black olives. For the red onion - nothing. I don't like raw onion. And finally, for the fancy cheese - shredded mozzarella. Basically, I had part of a rotisserie chicken left over from a post-Costco run lunch yesterday and I wanted to use more of that lentil pasta. Thanks to Google, for enabling me to enter shredded rotisserie chicken pasta salad, and come u