Chicken and Pasta Salad Recipe

Hey everyone, here's the recipe Stephanie was talking about on her blog. It's one of Neil's favorites so we make it pretty often. It's a really hearty salad so we have it for our whole meal plus I usually add some kind of bread, sometimes a homemade loaf or a French bagette.

Chicken and Pasta Salad
1 bag spinach or romaine lettuce(I use romaine)
8 oz. bowtie pasta, cooked and drained
1 cucumber, peeled and diced
1 red pepper, diced
1/2 cup red onion, chopped
1 can Mandarin oranges, drained
1 1/2 cups cooked chicken, chopped
1/2 cup toasted almonds

Dressing:
1 cup vegetable or canola oil
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup white vinegar
1/4 small onion or 2-3 shakes of dried, minced onion (I do the dried)
1 t salt
3/4 t ground mustard
1/2 t celery seed
combine ingredients and shake welll