Last night's dinner.

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Ok, So I've been in a rut and I felt like I was making the same thing every week for dinner.  So last night I tried something new.   A friend sent me the link and it sounded great so I thought, hey why not, let's try it and it was mostly things I already had on hand. 

So. We tried it.     Garlicky Pasta with Tomatoes and Basil

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons extravirgin olive oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 5 cups chopped plum tomatoes (about 2 pounds)
• 6 cups hot cooked campanella (about 12 ounces uncooked pasta)
• 1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmesan cheese
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparation

• Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add minced garlic; sauté 30 seconds. Add chopped tomatoes; cook for 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally. Add pasta, basil, cheese, salt, and pepper, tossing gently to combine.

David Bonom, Cooking Light
APRIL 2004

I made this almost like the recipe, but not totally. 

I used Penne pasta instead of the campanella (what is that?I couldn't find it at my store and I already had penne on hand)

With my minced garlic I added in a little minced onion, so small that you couldn't even see it though. 

I served this with a tomato & cucumber salad.  

I diced up fresh roma tomatoes and some cucumbers and marinated them in Garlic Expressions.

To finish it off I made some garlic bread, and some lemon pepper chicken (for my husband in case he didn't like the pasta dish). In reality we could've done without the bread or the chicken. The pasta and salad were perfect together and needed nothing else.

Photo courtesy of my husband and his android phone.