pasta!

Here was a fun meal from last week.  This was the first time I've had pasta in about 4 years.  If you think I'm crazy, you are probably right.  But aren't the crazy people the most interesting ones in your life?   Be grateful for us!  

Here's the pasta I used--it's a brown rice penne, and I didn't notice that it tasted any different from the usual but then it has been 4-5 years since I ate pasta...

I just cooked up summer veggies from the fridge:  patty pan squash, sweet red frying pepper (like a red bell pepper), onion, mushrooms, and fresh basil.   I enjoyed it!

zucchini-sesame sauce

This is a summer version of the tahini-rutabaga sauce (rutabagas last well into winter in Wisconsin). I didn't think to add onions. That would probably be good too.

Ingredients:

1 zucchini (yellow or green)

2 Tbsp sesame seeds, well rinsed

juice of lemon

some water

herbs from the garden or cupboard (optional)

Cook the zucchini in a little water. It cooks fast. In fact, I'm not sure you even need to cook it but I haven't tried it raw yet. I will and edit this if it's good. Combine everything except the herbs in the blender. Blend for a while so the sesame gets ground up. It gets creamy once the sesames are all blended. It gets warm and steamy too. Add the herbs and blend for a second if you didn't chop them fine. My herbs were chives, tarragon, basil, and parsley, because that's what in the garden. This is a good sauce, really good with collard greens. Housemate liked it a lot. She's going to get irritated when she reads this because she will find out it has zucchini in it and she claims to not like it.