recipe review: chicken and arugula pasta salad

i was flipping through my binders full of women recipes, filing away ones i'd printed recently and pulling out ones that sounded interesting in that moment. one of them was for this pasta salad that i thought would be great for lunches.

i bought a box of regular (read: not whole wheat) rotini and a package of perdue short cuts, since jewel was out of shredded rotisserie chicken and i wasn't in the mood to buy a whole rotisserie chicken just for this recipe. i bought a tomato from the farmers market and, while i was there, stopped in to see my preferred cheese vendors. they were out of brie but had just enough camembert to approximate what i needed here. i added sea salt to the boiling water for the pasta because i'm not a big fan of unsalted pasta.

when i make this again, i think i'd steep the shallot and garlic (used 2 cloves, btw) a little longer than 5 minutes because the shallot was still a bit too raw/bitter for my taste, even as the week progressed.