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Pasta and Garden Fresh Tomatoes

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta” ~Federico Felini

Garden pasta Salad

Tangy Feta and Toasted Walnuts make this Garden Fresh Salad just about perfect!

Pasta and Garden Fresh Tomatoes

Orecchiette Pasta, Fresh Tomatoes, Sweet Italian Sausage, Colorful Peppers, Basil, Feta Cheese and Toasted Walnuts all add up to a wonderful mouthful of garden fresh flavor.  This pasta salad pops with the flavors  a tangy bite of Feta Cheese, and the nice crunch of some lovely Toasted Walnuts.

I haven’t always been a pasta lover.  

Times past I saw pasta only as a vehicle for a grey, pasty, congealed type of sauce that had chunks of meat cooked to oblivion.

And then I discovered gardening.  

Summer-White-Onions Suddenly I had access to fresh garden tomatoes, sweet white onions, crisp sweet peppers in every color of the rainbow, 

and my world of pasta changed in an instant.  

Peppers-with-tomatoes-

Garden Fresh Pasta with Italian Sausage, Feta cheese and Toasted Walnuts
2013-08-26 08:08:23
Serves 6
Orecchiette Pasta, Fresh Tomatoes, Sweet Italian Sausage, Colorful Peppers, Basil, Feta Cheese and Toasted Walnuts all add up to a wonderful mouthful of garden fresh flavor.
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Ingredients
  1. 1- 2 Tbsp Chili infused olive oil
  2. 2 Tbsp olive oil
  3. 3 links Italian sweet sausage
  4. 1 lb package of Orecchiette (may substitute any shaped pasta)
  5. 4 vine ripened garden fresh tomatoes chopped with liquid reserved
  6. 1/2 cup chopped white onion
  7. 1 cup chopped colorful peppers (whatever you have available)
  8. 1/4 cup chopped Walnuts
  9. 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
  10. 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
  11. 1/4 cup chopped flat italian parsley
  12. 1/2 tsp garlic salt
  13. 1-2 tsps sea salt to taste
  14. Freshly ground black pepper
Walnuts
  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Lay walnuts on a baking sheet.
  3. Roast walnuts until they start to brown and smell toasted, 5 to 10 minutes.
  4. Cool.
Italian Sausage
  1. Heat saute pan to medium.
  2. Add 1 Tbsp chili infused oil and cook sausage until well browned on all sides and cooked completely through, adding additional oil as necessary.
  3. Remove from pan, cool and slice into 1/4 inch rounds.
Pasta
  1. Cook according to directions on package.
  2. Drain pasta in colander and rinse in cold water to stop cooking process.
  3. Pour into large bowl and place in refrigerator to chill while preparing vegetables.
Basil
  1. Place 1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil in saute pan heated on Medium low.
  2. Add chopped basil and stir.
  3. Remove from heat after basil has wilted and turned bright green in color, about 1 minute.
  4. Cool.
Assembling your Salad
  1. Add tomatoes with their reserved liquid, peppers, onions, Italian sausage, olive oil basil mixture, parsley, garlic salt, salt, and freshly ground pepper to the chilled pasta and stir gently.
  2. Sprinkle with feta cheese and toasted walnuts.
  3. Serve immediately.
Notes
  1. One of the things I love about this salad is the juice from the tomato makes up part of the delicious dressing. So, I pick out the juiciest looking tomatoes I can find. Usually this means a vine ripened tomato like a Beef, or Celebrity variety. A Roma or any Italian variety is usually too dry for this salad. Also, don't worry about the seeds from the tomatoes. You will want to scrape up every bit of tomato juice for the yummy dressing to cover your pasta and you wont even notice the seeds.
Great Tip
  1. Prepare walnuts, Italian sausage, pasta and vegetables (with the exception of the tomatoes, because you want every dip of that juice for your dressing) earlier in the day. This way, your salad will be quick to throw together when you are ready to eat it.
By Shari Eckstrom
Pure Grace Farms http://puregracefarms.com/

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