We don’t grocery shop like most people. We very seldom shop for more than one meal at a time. Because we have our CSA box, in the summer almost any produce we use we already have. If we need tomatoes or peppers we go out to the backyard and pick them. This usually leaves meat as the wildcard for dinner.
Tonight I wasn’t in the mood to stop at the butcher shop and pick up meat. So I headed off for home vowing to just make dinner based on whatever we had on hand. That turned into Pasta, Potatoes and Pesto with green beans and tomatoes.
Ingredients:
4 small red potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces
6 oz pasta
1 cup green beans, broken into bite-sized pieces
3 tomatoes, diced
4 garlic cloves, chopped
2 Grilled Italian sausages, chopped
2 tablespoons pesto
Chicken stock
Basil leaves, torn
Pepper to taste
Add potatoes to pot of salted water. Boil 10 minutes. Add pasta. Boil 5 minutes. Add green beans. Boil 5 minutes. When all three are done, drain in pot.
Add tomatoes, garlic. sausage and pesto to pot. Stir well. Add chicken stock to mixture until desired consistency is reached. Pour into serving dish. Sprinkle with basil leaves. Pepper to taste.
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