Sometimes the simplest combinations are wonderful

Some friends of ours were nice enough to give us a huge bag of tomatoes from their garden about two weeks ago, and I'm having a hard time using them up. So I couldn't make dinner for one last night without including them. I also wanted to include Ricotta cheese because I've recently developed a love for Ricotta cheese and I knew I had some in the refrigerator. Additionally, I haven't been shopping in a bit (I don't even have onions right now), and I feel like I've been eating why too many carbs like bread and snack foods and not enough veggies. I really wanted my dinner to be light and healthy tasting...like a hearty salad.

I chopped up 2 small tomatoes and combined them with about a cup of peas (I always have peas on hand. They are the only vegetable that I buy frozen. They always taste so fresh and healthy even when I just grabbed them out of the freezer and ran them under cool water to dethaw), fresh basil and parsley, most of a can of chick peas, and two chopped green onions.

Then I added all of that stuff to about 2 1/2 cups cooked Acini di Pepe (very small pasta balls...the only pasta I had on hand besides egg noodles) that was still hot.

I was very happy with the results. My warm pasta salad tasted really great with a large dollop of Ricotta cheese on top (well, actually, it tasted great by itself too), and it made me very happy.:) Oh! And it looked really pretty!

(I took this picture with my cell phone because my sexy husband had the camera with him.)


For lunch today I combined the leftover chickpeas with two small tomatoes and the rest of the peas to make a salad of sorts. Then I sprinkled some leftover tomato basil feta on top. Tomatoes, chickpeas, and peas are a fantastic combination. You should try it.:)