Tasty Tuesdays: Simple Cherry Tomato Pasta

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Welcome to Tasty Tuesdays!

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I have so many cherry tomatoes right now from my garden plot and decided to use them in a pasta.  Bad news about my tomatoes though.  All six of my plants have blight.  Ugh.  But I'm still getting cherries and Romas so it wasn't a total loss.  I found this recipe on Macheesmo.  What a great food blog - he, yes he, has lots of wonderful recipes.  

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Look at all these pretty tomatoes...

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And basil growing in my screen porch...

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Ingredients:

- 1 pound pasta (I used slightly)
- 2 pints (1 quart) ripe cherry tomatoes

- 2 Tablespoons olive oil

- 3 or 4 cloves garlic, minced

- 1/2 onion, diced

- 1/2 cup dry white wine (I used red because I already had an open bottle)

- 1/4 Cup fresh basil, chopped

- Salt and pepper

- Freshly grated Parmesan

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1.  Start pot of water to boil pasta.  Heat up oil in large skillet and add onion and garlic.  Cook for a few minutes.

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2.  Add cherry tomatoes.  No need to slice or peel them, just throw them in.
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3.  Stir and let the tomatoes heat up. Once they've cooked for 10 minutes or so, they will start to get really soft and you can break them up with a spoon.

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4.  Keep cooking and stirring occasionally until the tomato mixture starts to thicken and pull away from the sides.  It will take 20 minutes or so for the sauce to start looking like this.

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{ See that spoon?  It's for lefties!  It's hard to tell in the photo but it's angled so you can use it with your left hand.  Any lefties out there who have tried to use other angled spoons or spatulas will know why I love it! }

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5.  At this point your water should be boiling.  Add your pasta and cook according to package directions.

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6.  Add wine and basil to tomato mixture.  Also add salt and pepper to taste.

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7.  Stir together and turn down the heat to low.  It won't take long for the wine to evaporate.  If sauce gets to dry while you are waiting for your pasta to finish cooking, add 1/4 cup of pasta water to mixture.

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8.  When your pasta is done use tongs to transfer the pasta from the water and add it directly to the sauce.  Pasta water should be dripping from the pasta.

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9.  Stir it all together and your pasta is finished!

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10.  Top with freshly grated Parmesan and enjoy!

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{ serves 4 }

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