Simple Pasta

I was starving the other night, with a ton of home work.  Life (and blogging) will be better when I don't have school.  Summer is looking great right about now.  Summer includes the farmer's market, berry picking, and free time!  So please, bare with me until summer.  For in the summer I won't throw together ingredients and call it dinner.  However, this actually came out really good so I figured I'd post it.

Cook down some onion and garlic in olive oil, add a can of tomatoes, melt feta cheese.  Add some Parmesan and half and half to cut down on the grainy texture that the feta will leave.  You'll still have the texture, but it will be less severe.  If you like that then ignore the Parmesan and half and half, if you don't or you want to cut down the strength of the feta then go right ahead.  Adding as much or as little as you please. Add some pasta, whatever you have on hand works, and dinner is ready.  It took me 15 minutes or so.  Perfect for a rushed day, with a ton of work still to do.

Pasta with Acorn Squash

This was fantastic.  A simple egg pasta with a sweet, and savory sauce.  It has taken me ages to get this up, but this was my thanksgiving meal.  I had a few other side dishes, but this was my main dish.  The pasta was simply pasta and eggs, blended in the food processor, then placed in the fridge for an hour.  I rolled out the dough, and I cut it in crazy rectangles.  I put it in my water and let it cook for a bit.  The acorn squash roasted away in the oven for 30 minutes.  While this was going I took some butter and garlic, let it go in my pan until it was filling the kitchen with its wonderful smells.  I scrapped squash out and added it to the pan.  Then I thinned it out with half and half and some veggie broth.

I drained the pasta and combined it with the squash in the pan.  After allowing them to come together, I added salt and pepper to season, and then some freshly ground nutmeg on top.

It may be one of my new favorites, though I will say that I will probably thin the sauce a bit more next time.  I would give you my actual measurements, but I have no idea what they are.... sorry.  I don't tend to measure unless I'm following a recipe or baking.