Weeknight dinners

It was an exhausting work week. Nothing in particular, but I was just tired when I got home. And I hadn't gone to the market so there wasn't much that seemed to need eating. In times of tiredness, cook pasta!

We appear to no longer really be eating box pasta, which isn't really a bad thing. We always keep Storico Fresco frozen stuffed and dried pastas on hand.

One night, we made this tortelli, which was a little past its one month hold time, and I used most of the tomatoes that I got at Osage to make a sauce along with a generous amount of basil from the plant on the deck.

These tortelli were made with fava and guanciale. Delicious.

For the second time that week, I found myself making a fresh tomato sauce. This time, it was with the agnolli, which are stuffed with genoa salami and leeks. When I told Michael that I served this with a tomato sauce, I could tell he rathered I didn't. But instead, he said, this pasta is really great with fried leeks. The two tastes go really well together.

And here is what I made on Friday, when I got out of work early for the holiday and was able to defrost meat.

I parboiled and then roasted some Burge turnips, which I love. Those are tomatoes from our container garden.

And I had time to make cannelini beans with garlic and rosemary. Yum!