I started growing a garden a few years ago. I started planting tomatoes and a few herbs in pots. The next year I made a 6×6 plot in the back yard to plant some tomatoes, herbs and peppers. This year we made the garden bigger and added green beans cucumbers, and watermelons to the mix. This was my harvest this morning:
Looks like we have some canning in our future!
The garden this morning: (you can see how tall I had to hold my camera to get he whole thing in the picture)
(still didn’t get all the tomatoes on the right side in the shot!)
We had so many yellow grape tomatoes I didn’t know what to do with them! So I looked around and found an interesting recipe for a yellow tomato pasta salad. I made it last week and it was really tasty!
I am sure you could use red tomatoes if you wanted, however, yellow tomatoes have less acid and are sweeter than red ones, so the taste would probably be different!
This salad would pair nicely with grilled chicken or steak. You could even take it to a picnic! It was tasty hot, but was also really good cold! Versatile and yummy is a great combo. Plus it was super easy and fast to make!
Yellow Tomato Pasta Salad
(adapted from Debi’s Yellow Tomato Lumaconi)
Ingredients:
- Kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound yellow cherry or grape tomatoes, half of them sliced in half
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 pound pasta (I used organic whole wheat rotini)
- 1/2 cup frozen organic peas
- Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
Directions
The original recipe used white wine where I used chicken broth. I am not a huge fan of the taste of wine in foods, but if you are, you may want to try that in place of the chicken broth)
Mmmm. That recipe looks so good.
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Looks pretty good! I need to start my own vegetable garden, too!
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Hi! I love the fact that you have your own garden with your own organic vegetables, and it makes me a tad jealous! I try to buy my own vegetables organic as well from a friend that grows organic vegetables commercially, but it must be a lot easier to have a garden like that yourself. This is probably a really silly question, but what are the plants that are the easiest to tend to as a starter (and for someone who doesn’t have -any- green fingers at all)?
I’d love to mix organic vegetables with homemade pasta, maybe in the near future!
Julia
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Thanks for sharing this unique recipe, Carol. I never thought yellow tomatoes would bring an entirely different flavor to a pasta dish before. I preferred including some chilli flakes to make the dish a bit spicy as it seemed too sweet for a spice lover like me because of the sweet tomatoes and the peas.
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