I love August and all it's fresh vegetables. Put the summer harvest to good use in this easy, delicious Summer Vegetable Pasta.
I think (fingers crossed) that our summer heat wave may be breaking this week. We've had the first thunder and rain storms, with more in the forecast over the next week or so and the temperatures have finally dropped from the triple digits. This summer really has been a scorcher!
With the slightly cooler temperatures and evening rainstorms, I finally feel like I can use the oven again. And just in time too because it wouldn't be summer without fresh roasted corn and tomatoes on my dinner table. This simple pasta is one of my favorite ways to use up the season's fresh vegetables.
Summer Vegetable Pasta
This Summer Vegetable Pasta is such a simple recipe, but that's exactly what makes it delicious. Roasting the tomatoes and corn in the oven brings out the sweetness and peak of summer flavor, which means you don't need much else to turn a pot of pasta noodles into something special. A hint of lemon, black pepper, good Parmesan, and some thyme. But mostly, it's all about the summer veggies.
Start to finish, this will take you about 35 to 45 minutes to get it on the table, but most of that is down time while the veggies roast and the noodles boil. It's an easy one and I speak only the truth when I say we've been eating some version of this three or more times a week recently. It evolved from the Penne with Roasted Tomatoes and Spinach recipe in Dinner: A Playbook (which I raved about here and can't recommend highly enough).
The weird thing is that my kids normally boohoo about eating cooked spinach (raw is fine, in a smoothie is best, but cooked can incite a dinner table riot). But for some odd reason, they eat this Summer Vegetable Pasta with no complaint. Go figure.
Summer Vegetable Pasta
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Looking for More Delicious Summer Recipes? Try these:
Summer Vegetable Chicken Pot Pies
Summer Vegetable Black Bean Chili
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