Chili Pasta Salad
by Dan Metcalf

This is a tasty, hearty pasta salad flavored with a chili powder sauce.


Chili powder sauce:

	Ingredients:
	3	Tbsp Olive Oil
	1	Onion (large) minced fine
	2	Garlic cloves minced fine
	4-5	Tbsp Chili powder, homemade is best
	salt to taste (good chicken bullion cubes can be used)
	brown sugar to taste (2 tsp?)
	water as needed

In a heated saucepot pour in oil.  Add minced onion & garlic.  Sweat onions
until soft.  Add chili powder, stirring to coat onions.  Once coated, add 
about a cup of water and continue cooking over medium heat.  Add water as 
necessary to keep from burning.  After about 3-5 minutes of cooking add in
brown sugar and salt to taste.  I do prefer the bullion over just plain salt.
Continue to cook and stir, preferably with a wire wisk, to make a thick sauce.
Add water as necessary to keep the consistency close to catsup.  This makes 
more than enough sauce for the pasta salad, but it also works good on omlettes
or other egg dishes.


Pasta Salad:

	Ingredients:
	4	Eggs, hard boiled
	1/2	lb. dry Pasta, bite sized
	Mayonnaise
	Chili powder sauce

Prepare pasta per instructions.  Eggs should be sliced or chopped.  Combine
mayo & chili powder sauce in 50/50 portions and combine with pasta & eggs as
needed.