Recipe: Linguine with spinach pesto 21 August 2007 9:02 am
Posted by Tracy in : cheese,cooking,eating,recipes,vegan,vegetarian , add a commentAnother recipe first published at Everything2.com, where it was dedicated to Peter, my food’s greatest fan, with many thanks, which seemed worth repeating again here. The story of this meal begins one night when I was sautéing mushrooms, onions, garlic, green pepper and herbs for a pasta sauce that would eventually incorporate a bunch of tomato as well. “That smells good enough to eat just like that,” Peter said, and since I’m always on the lookout for good pasta sauces that don’t use tomato, it caught my attention. That night I went ahead with dinner as planned, although I did come up with the idea of incorporating the veggies into a pesto-based sauce. But then a few days later I found myself mucking around the kitchen trying to figure out what to do with just enough spinach for one person to have steamed or in a salad. It was about enough to blend into ricotta cheese for lasagna filling, or chop into macaroni and cheese before baking (in fact, we had leftover spinach exactly because we’d had a little too much to use in a mac and cheese, but I digress). (more…)
