Friday night, I looked around at all the vegetables we'd picked, and I was inspired to make a pasta sauce. It went about like this:
Chop one large onion and 2 cloves garlic, and saute in 2 Tablespoons olive oil until the onions start to turn transparent. Add 2 chopped peppers, and add to the onions and garlic.Saute until the peppers start to turn soft. Peel and slice 3 Japanese eggplant. Saute with the onions, garlic, peppers, until the eggplant starts to turn soft. Chop 3 Roma tomatoes, and add to the other vegetables. Chop 1/4 basil and stir in. While this is cooking start the pasta.
Boil a couple quarts of water in a sauce pan. When the water comes to a full boil, add the pasta and cook according to package directions. I used penne rigate, but you can use what you like. When the pasta is done, add the sauce and serve.
The smell was wonderful as the sauce was cooking. I kept thinking that someone else must have invented a recipe like this 100s of years ago, and that there is probably a fancy Italian name for this dish. Anybody have any ideas?
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