Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Proud as a Red Pepper
I am SO proud of this. Last night, dinner was Italian. While out shopping the other day, I found some really fun pasta - yes, fun pasta. I have seen multi-colored pasta at the grocery store, but it typically comes in three colors. Check out this pasta! Now that is multi-colored pasta. As you can see in the photo, I also bought some lovely roasted red peppers. I have heard people suggest doing the roasting yourself, but I have to tell ya, for a dollar a piece, it's worth it to me to have somebody else roast them, peel them, put them in a pretty jar, and allow me to bring them home that way. Have you SEEN the recent price for raw red peppers? Yep, definitely worth it. See how pretty they turned out? All I had to do was cut them up prior to being cooked, then toss them in the blender. What compelled me to make this, you might ask? Well, I know good flavor, and have good taste in food, of course. ;) Actually, I have had some delicious roasted red pepper sauces out at restaurants before, and deemed them utterly difficult to find. Ergo, I decided to make it instead. If you can't find what you want by going out, what sense does it make to go? While the finished product doesn't look as pretty as it did in real life, I hope you can imagine the yummy smells and flavors of a creamy, cheesey, fat free half-and-half-y sauce. Sidenote: fat free half and half is healthy. See how that works?