Every year at just about this time I renew my obsession with tomato dishes particularly ones that include pasta. But a good salsa and crushed tomato will
send me to the kitchen for a marathon of canning and sweating and then more canning. It’s late August, after all, and if you happen to be a garden person or know people who garden you know this is the time of year we gloriously drown in tomatoes. I am here, for those of you swimming in excess, eager to help you out. Don’t be too fooled by my so-called benevolence, however, as it’s really a selfish endeavor; I find pasta with tomatoes to be one of the universe’s perfect meals, so I’m hardly moping and scuffling my way to the kitchen the next time the whim for a new one strikes me. And this I say again, is my obsession–a new tomato pasta dish. I always think that my
newest one will be the one that closes the book on the best there ever is and that it will be done, that I will be able to move on and find new secret methods to crack in the kitchen knowing that I’ve narrowed in on my best tomato dish even Martha Stewart couldn’t deny. However, a new crop of tomatoes brings new possibilities. My curiosity seems to kill any satisfaction of the last creation and I guess I’ve adopted you’re-only-as-good-as-your-last-hit kind of girl and that is what led me to this–the first in a new series of “simple classy” dishes I’m creating for anyone who appreciates flavor beyond description with a classy flare yet simple in the making of said dish. This is such a dish. Ridiculous is all I have to say and that it was hit at my labor day weekend gathering.
Harvest Tomato Pasta with feta
By Published: September 5, 2011
- Yield: 4 Servings
- Prep: 10 mins
A simply classy dish that I served at our family get together and my sister-in-law said it was the best pasta dish she had ever eaten! k, thanks.
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb. pasta (I like the flat pasta but the egg noodle pasta will work nicely too) boiled according to package
- 2 tomatoes sliced
- 3 T. capers
- 5 T. feta cheese
- fresh basil torn
- Italian dressing home-made or bottled
Instructions
- Layer all of these ingredients and serve. Make it ahead of time and allow everything to marinate or serve immediately. It was tasty either way.
