California Pasta Recipe Created by Ruth Paget
Serves 4
Ingredients:
-4 cups dry rotini pasta
-1/4 cup olive oil
-2 chopped red onions
-2 teaspoons dry garlic
-1 (2.25-ounce) can drained and sliced California black olives
-2 cups chopped cherry tomatoes
-1 cup grated Parmesan, Romano, or Pecorino cheese
Steps:
1-Boil pasta according to package instructions.
2-Sauté onions, dry garlic, olives, and cherry tomatoes for ten minutes.
3-When the pasta is cooking, drain it, and add it to the vegetables in the frying pan and stir.
4-Place pasta on four plates and top off with grated cheese and pepper.
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France