Pasta I love thee, let me count the ways!
I love making pasta (fresh or dry) just as much as i love BBQing, it's an equal love for different times of the year and now that we are moving into Fall, i thought i would make an ode to Summer, but give Fall a big Hug hello.
I love Fall and all that comes with it!
Dinner for 1 tonight as Heidi is at bookclub after Sienna went to sleep at 6.30pm. Cooking and blogging extra quietly!
Ingredients
Directions
......Dinner for 1 is legit!
I love making pasta (fresh or dry) just as much as i love BBQing, it's an equal love for different times of the year and now that we are moving into Fall, i thought i would make an ode to Summer, but give Fall a big Hug hello.
I love Fall and all that comes with it!
Dinner for 1 tonight as Heidi is at bookclub after Sienna went to sleep at 6.30pm. Cooking and blogging extra quietly!
Ingredients
- small stack dried linguine pasta, (if you get the amount right, write it down! i always have too little or too much!)
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp dried onion powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano,
- 1 tsp of dried basil or a couple leaves of fresh if you have it
- 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 small onion, cut in half and then each half quartered (triangles)
- 1/4 cup goats cheese
- handful of arugula (rocket)
- 2 mushrooms
- 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
- extra virgin olive oil
- salt and coarse black pepper to taste
- wine for drinking and a little for the sauce :)
Directions
- Put your pasta in a pot of boiling salted water with a drizzle of olive oil, prob be around 8 minutes.
- Whilst the pasta is boiling, bring a frying pan to a medium heat
- put in your butter and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and let it melt for 15 seconds
- fry off your onions and garlic for 3 minutes
- add your mushrooms and cherry tomatoes to the mix and fry for another 2 minutes
- add the tomato paste , 1/2 the goats cheese and a few tablespoons of the boiling pasta water until the paste is a bit more thinned out to your liking.
- add the spices, herbs, salt and black pepper and lower to a simmer. add a few splashes of your wine to the sauce and continue to simmer. I had white wine this time.
- If the sauce continues to thicken, add a few more tablespoons of pasta water until you get the consistency you like.
- Remove pasta from water and strain, keep a small amount of water.
- then add pasta to the frying pan and mix in together with the sauce.
- you can drizzle some olive oil ontop so it together easier and a bit more pasta water as well.
- Plate up, layer in arugula and goats cheese, extra black pepper ontop
......Dinner for 1 is legit!