Red pesto penne with roasted cherry tomatoes and goat cheese
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Italian cuisine
Roasting
To say this was the best thing we've eaten in a long time would be an understatement. This was by far the best pasta dish I've had in recent memory. It's 10:22 on Sunday morning and I'm salivating just thinking about it. The red pesto (sundried tomato pesto) is divine, the roasted cherry tomatoes are practically candy, and the goat cheese is just the icing on the cake. The crazy thing is, I never liked tomatoes until about this time last year. It was then we discovered the treasure trove of heirloom tomatoes at the Farmers' Market. A good, ripe heirloom tomato will convert even the harshest of tomato critics. Now, just a measly 12 months after that discovery, our grocery cart is consistently filled with 3 or 4 different kinds of tomatoes each week (who'd a thunk?). Right behind the heirloom tomatoes, my favorites are the bite sized cherry tomatoes. This week the farmers market had some yellow ones in addition to the normal red, and we thought they'd be perfect for this dish. I think
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