It's time to reinvent the pasta salad. Use your noodle to think outside the mayonnaise bottle for your next picnic, with interesting flavor combinations like Giada De Laurentiis' orecchiette with mixed greens and goat cheese (pictured above) and zesty green-onion dressing tossed with bowtie pasta.

Check out four more of our favorite pasta salad recipes below — only one of which uses mayonnaise for creaminess — and get more camping recipes and picnic ideas here.

Toasted coconut adds a touch of sweetness to the tangy green-onion vinaigrette in Roger Mooking's bowtie pasta salad.

Giada's take on the classic Italian salad has peppery arugula, salty ricotta salata and sweet-and-tart dried cherries.

Macaroni Icebox Salad with Creamy Red-Wine Vinaigrette

This Instagram-worthy salad layers up broccolini, ham, celery, bell peppers, iceberg lettuce and cheddar cheese, but feel free to throw in any of your favorite ingredients.

Nigella Lawson uses cured mortadella for a more upscale version of a ham pasta salad. It can be tossed together in 15 minutes with a mustard-Parmesan vinaigrette.

The Mom 100: Pasta Salad with Chicken, Picholine Olives and Ramp Vinaigrette

Napa Farmhouse 1885: Pasta Salad with Arugula, Bell Pepper & Spring Onion

Elephants and the Coconut Trees: Chicken Pasta Salad with Peanut Butter Dressing

Taste with the Eyes: Refreshing Rice Noodle Salad, Lime Ginger Dressing

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