pasta salad - one of many

Hi all. I'll come back and edit this post to add the picture later - I took one, but I don't know how to get it on here yet.

I got this pasta salad recipe from my aunt - when I was at her house a couple of years ago, I went through her cookbooks and wrote a bunch of stuff out. I recently found those random pieces of paper and have started making stuff from them. Pasta salad is one of my favorite things for warm weather days, and I was a bit overheated from hiking up the hill at the zoo earlier today. This really hit the spot, and I'm looking forward to trying the lemon summer pasta that Tiana posted (I'm also a big fan of asparagus and garlic).

AUNT JEAN'S PASTA SALAD
1 - Cook a box of penne pasta.
2 - Put 2 tbl. olive oil in a frying pan, cook 1 cup julienne-cut carrots and 1/2 cup chopped red onion. Cook on high heat until the carrots start to get tender.
3 - At this stage, you can add Italian sausage if you want to.
4 - Lower the heat and add 1 cup snap peas and 1 cup broccoli.
5 - Add 2 cans of chopped tomatoes (or dice 2 beefsteak tomatoes), and basil, garlic, and oregano to taste.
6 - When the veggies are heated all the way through, mix with the pasta.
7 - Add black olives and cubed mozzarella cheese.
8 - Eat warm or cold.