Fusilli and Creamy Pumpkin sauce with Pesto

 

We were puttering around on Sunday when all the sudden we were starving. Teetering on the verge of frozen pizza for dinner I remembered my homemade roasted pumpkin puree. Hooray! This came together really fast and more on a feeling than knowledge of how it would turn out, lucky for us it turned out really stinkin delicious!

 

Fusilli and Creamy Pumpkin sauce with Pesto:

 

fusilli pasta for 4 (12-16 ounces)

1 tbs rosemary

2 tbs olive oil

2 cups/16 oz of pumpkin puree

2 gloves garlic; minced

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

1 tbs white wine vinegar

1/4 tsp red pepper flakes

1/4 cup shredded mozzarella

1/2 red onion; diced

few tbs of pesto

salt to taste

 

1    cook pasta in large pot of boiling water

2    while pasta is cooking heat rosemary in olive oil for 1-2 minutes on medium heat

3    spoon out rosemary and set aside

4    add pumpkin, garlic, cream, vinegar, and red pepper flakes to oil, stir well

5    sauté onions in a bit of olive oil in a separate pan

6    take 1 cup of the boiling pasta water and add to pumpkin sauce, add salt to taste

7    drain and plate pasta

8    sprinkle 1/4 cup mozzarella cheese over pumpkin sauce and stir until melted

9    spoon pumpkin sauce over noodles, top with sautéed onions and a dollop of pesto

 

 

Cincy Time Pasta Masters

 

For Christmas this year my sis & brother-in-law got me a pasta maker. We'd made pasta before with friends and thought it would be really fun to be able to share that experience with others. While home though of course we had to all try it out. We made pasta one night with my parents and then the siblings got jealous so we did it again another night when they were all free. Now we're pros (at first it was all sticking and mushing together)

 

 

I loved making it together and hanging it all in the kitchen to dry! We used a recipe for the pasta from good ol Martha. We made an alfredo and tomato sauce to top the pasta off with. Next I'd like to try something like spelt flour pasta (why not!?)

 

 

my dad plated his food the best so he got a photo of his