Good thing for me, I developed my own seriously good for you pasta recipe years ago that I can eat any time and as often as I'd like, given how healthy it is. I also love that it changes every time I make it, depending on what's in season and in my fridge. Great way to use your backyard or farmer's market veggies!
The roots in this particular pasta, I must confess, started with an old and dear friend, Phil, though my version(s) are quite different (wanted to include full disclosure!).
I don't actually have precise measurements - make this in the volume you're used to/need for yourself and/or your family. The magic comes in what you add, not the pasta noodles or the base sauce (which you can make yourself using your own recipe or your favorite store/artisanal sauce).
So, without further ado:
Whole wheat linguine
Your own homemade sauce, or your favorite store bought, farmer's market, etc. sauce
Local, organic, fresh veggies
Accoutrements like:
- marinated olives (I love fat local olives marinated in lemon and garlic)
- capers
- toasted pinenuts (trust me - delish)
- cooked beans (lentils, garbanzo/chickpeas, scarlet runner beans or fava are particular faves for me)
- cheese (my faves are crumbled feta cheese or shaved parmesan)
- mushrooms (grilled portabello all chopped up, sauted or fresh crimini, etc.)
- basil leaves (roll up like a cigar, slice very very thinly)
- chopped up italian flat leaf parsley
- whatever else you have on hand that you love
- turkey meatballs or crumbled ground turkey, cooked
- artisanal sausages, sliced thin (you can almost always find delicious sausages at your local farmer's market)
- clams, shrimp or other shellfish (fully cooked)
- Red chili flakes, to taste
- Fresh cracked pepper
- A few crushed cloves of garlic
- Lemon or orange zest (trust me, but don't use too much)
- A splash of fresh lemon juice (really brightens things up)
I made this last night with an organic (but store bought sauce), whole wheat linguine, parmesan, pepper, chile flakes, parsley, asparagus, zucchini and baby patty pan squash. Delish! I often enjoy over a bed or arugula or spinach, and have been known to add quinoa before adding the sauce.
Now I'm hungry for more! I hope you enjoy this if you try it out. :)
4 comments:
Have you any idea how envious I am that you have LOCAL olives? Seriously!!! And citrus. What I wouldn't do for a few citrus trees in my back yard.
This is a frequent meal at our house...pasta ala Phil(now me). It's all about the fridge clean out with that guy.
ohh yummy!!! :)
Heather, that's pretty funny, OR it's proof positive that Everything But The Kitchen Sink dishes (one of my specialites) work! I'm still using this one, 20 (good lord, TWENTY) years later, too! :)
Oh my goodness! I'm so hungry right now and this just put me over the edge! YUM
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