Lentil Pasta

In the summer when tomatoes were at their best we made several batches of Oven Candied Summer Tomatoes from: The Italian Country Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. We then froze the tomatoes for use in the winter when delicious tomatoes are hard to come by.

We used the frozen tomatles for our main course: Lentil Pasta. The Italian Lentil Pasta from the restaurant Locanda Veneta in Los Angeles is one of the best. It is so rich, you would swear it was made with meat. You can get the recipe from our blog of: July 22, 2008. Click the date to get the recipes for both the pasta and the tomatoes.

I can’t say enough about Lentil Pasta! It is one of our favorites and we have made it many, many times. It is a vegetarian dish that tastes like it has a meat sauce. But that isn’t the secret. The secret is it is DELICIOUS! Try it.

 We served a simple salad of Tomatoes, Burrata Cheese, Olive Oil, Fresh Herbs, Olives. It was a  perfect accompaniment to the pasta.