EASY RECIPE
This week’s easy recipe caught Sue’s eye as she read her August issue of Real Simple. Sue asked if I would make the dish for her, and after adding a few touches of my own, her dinner request was ready for testing. Turned out to be a great meal full of fresh from the garden flavors including a wonderful zucchini and tomatoes grown by Sue’s co-worker.
recipe serves four
Ingredients
10 oz Linguine
1 fire roasted red pepper (from store bought jar) – cut into thin strips
1/4 C pine nuts
14 kalamata olives -halved
3 Tbsp olive oil
2 C fresh corn (sliced off ears)
2 cloves garlic – minced
2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes – halved
1 lb. zucchini – thinly cut into ribbons
2 Tbsp fresh oregano – chopped
5 oz goat cheese – crumbled.
salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation
Cook the linguine as directed on packaging. When done reserve 3/4 C of the water and then drain pasta, cover and set pasta aside.
Heat oil in large fry pan on medium heat. Add the corn, pine nuts, garlic, and 1/4 tsp each of sea salt and pepper. Toss while cooking 2 minutes. Add the the zucchini slices and toss for a minute. Add the olives, tomatoes, oregano and cook for 3 minutes. Add the pasta water and pasta.
Plate the pasta in a large serving bowl, and top with crumbled goat cheese.
And that’s all there is to it. You just made my take on a great summer Real Simple inspired pasta.
AND STUFF
In my novel GOLDPLAY, recently discharged, unofficial Army Ranger, Amber Reyes, now residing in Los Angeles, meets ex-FBI agent Jack Fields. They merge their formidable skill sets to form 3-D Security. London hires them to do a simple security review of a firm that stores gold for the wealthy. Now all they have to do to grow their new plum client is live long enough to thwart an elaborate gold theft scheme.
GOLDPLAY is now available in print form at: Granada Books, and The Book Den in Santa Barbara; Bank of Books in Ventura; Vroman’s in Pasadena; Pages in Manhattan Beach; Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe; and Collected Works in Santa Fe.
For those not near the indie stores stocking GOLDPLAY it is available in electronic format through AmazonKindle, ibookstore, nook, Reader, kobo and others.
I’m currently scheduled for book signings at Apostrophe Books in Long Beach on August 25 from 2 to 4, and at The Bank of Books in Ventura on October 19 from 1 to 3. Come on by and we can talk books and recipes!
Good Eating and Table Talk,
Roger
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