My Favorite Lite Springtime Meal

JudyT929

I made this last night for the upteenth time just for myself and thought for the first time I'd share. I've made this for others and they love it, it's simple lite, healthy, DElicious and QUICK.

Angel Pasta w/Vegees

1 Zucchini
1 Yellow Squash
Capers (or chopped up black olives)
Couple of tomatos Chopped
Emeril's Seasoning (regular or Italian)
Lemon Pepper
Angel Hair Pasta
Lemon Olive Oil

Chop up the zucchini and squash in bite size pieces, saute in lemon olive oil (or just squeeze a lemon into regular olive oil) season to taste w/Emerils seasoning and lemon pepper, (I like lots of Emerils seasoning it never seems to be too much) saute for about 15 minutes to get nice and soft.


Add the Angel hair pasta to boiling water and boil for 3-4 minutes. During this time add the chopped up tomatos to the saute pan and mix everything up.

Drain the pasta, add to the saute, mix it up, and Serve! Top with grated cheese if you prefer.

Whole thing takes about 20 minutes from start to finish and you have a delicious lite meal. When I serve for guests I make a salad and have foccacchia bread. Goes great with a nice bottle of red wine, I prefere an Australian Shiraz (current inexpensive favorite is Yellow Tail).

Parabeaglex2

Sounds great, Judy - especially for a vegetarian like me. I'd probably lose the zucchini and the capers/olives, but everything else sounds great.

Australian wine??? Isn't that sort of like drinking champagne from Newark? x:-)

ritaanz

Ahem!!! Beagpuss, did you really mean to write Newark?

Parabeaglex2

Maybe.... x;-)

I could have said Jackson

Don D

there ain't no champagne from Jackson.

HRinNH

Yeah, I'd probably leave off the capers too...very bitter. But replacing them with black olives sounds good to me.

Thanks Judy ~ sounds like a keeper!!!

atrimble

Mom made something similar when I was a kid, except with us living on a farm, meat was mandatory, so she'd brown some ground beef or slice up kielbasa in the mix. OH, and we are all onion fans, which was added after the zucchini and squash were done. And sometimes she'd use canned tomatoes or tomato sauce (since the tomato patch hadn't produced yet).

And I love your suggestion for Yellow Tail, though shiraz/syrah is a bit "big" for my tastes for this mediterranean-style dish. Throw in lots of fresh garlic and it might stand up - though Emeril's Seasoning may do it on it's own (I haven't tried it in this dish).

I haven't made this recipe in over a decade, as my hubby doesn't like zucchini or squash, but now I've got a hankering for it... thanks for the trip down memory lane!

-Abby