The Recipe Post #3: Courgette and Tomato Pasta
Next up, it’s another pasta recipe! A couple of weeks ago some of my girlfriends came round in the evening before one returned to uni, and I wanted to make something simple and tasty, that wouldn’t involve me standing over the stove and excluded from the general conversation. Everyone had had long days of work or uni, and so we needed something tasty. I have no idea where I got this initial recipe from, but I took the basis of it and threw in my own substitutions or alterations, and it seemed to go down well. I’ve got more into making sauces for pasta recently. It can be so cheap and easy to throw in a sauce that I had fallen into the trap of doing that, but it’s so inexpensive to make your own sauce, and it has an extra edge of tastiness. For this recipe, which serves about 4, you will need: 4 cloves garlic, crushed 400g can chopped tomatoes 12 cherry tomatoes, halved 400-450g amori pasta (twirls) 2tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1/2 tsp crushed chillies 2 courgettes, dice...