This weeks pasta for Ruth's (of Once Upon A Feast) Presto Pasta Night came about from my new favorite past time: avoiding grocery shopping and seeing what I can find in the fridge, freezer and pantry. Just like my Orzo and Ham Pasta Salad and my Soba Noodle Salad for recent PPN's, I turned to our overstocked shelves in the kitchen to see what I could find.
I'm finally making a dent in our pasta "collection". I grabbed the last bag of fusilli and peered around some more in the pantry. Not seeing anything that was grabbing me I checked out the fridge to see what I could find for a sauce. In the door of the fridge was a half full bottle of pesto. As neither Scott or I are fans of traditional pesto - both of us don't like pine nuts - I don't know where this came from. Isn't that odd? I gave it a taste and it was pretty darn good; the pine nuts weren't very prominent in the flavor. IDEA! Cold pasta salad with pesto.
I cooked the noodles, drained and rinsed them in cold water. The pesto got thinned just a tad with some water, then tossed with the pasta. After seasoning it with salt and pepper I gave it a taste. Good, but it needed something. Something like tomatos! I chopped up a couple of tomatos, threw them in and it was perfect. After having a couple more bites I poured it onto a dish to take some pictures, then packed it up in the fridge for later; I figured it could feed both of us for lunch for a couple of days.
And I never saw it again.
Later that day Scott, that wicked, wicked man ATE. IT. ALL. when I wasn't around.
There are no words.
I'm finally making a dent in our pasta "collection". I grabbed the last bag of fusilli and peered around some more in the pantry. Not seeing anything that was grabbing me I checked out the fridge to see what I could find for a sauce. In the door of the fridge was a half full bottle of pesto. As neither Scott or I are fans of traditional pesto - both of us don't like pine nuts - I don't know where this came from. Isn't that odd? I gave it a taste and it was pretty darn good; the pine nuts weren't very prominent in the flavor. IDEA! Cold pasta salad with pesto.
I cooked the noodles, drained and rinsed them in cold water. The pesto got thinned just a tad with some water, then tossed with the pasta. After seasoning it with salt and pepper I gave it a taste. Good, but it needed something. Something like tomatos! I chopped up a couple of tomatos, threw them in and it was perfect. After having a couple more bites I poured it onto a dish to take some pictures, then packed it up in the fridge for later; I figured it could feed both of us for lunch for a couple of days.
And I never saw it again.
Later that day Scott, that wicked, wicked man ATE. IT. ALL. when I wasn't around.
There are no words.
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