My 2 green cougettes plants aren’t doing very well at all. We only ate 8 green courgettes aka 21 cm long but they tasted so good! The yellow courgette plant is going the same way, unfortunately! 😦 There was a disease on each plant. I tried to cure it but it didn’t work! 😦 Maybe more luck, next year! 🙂
Great with a BBQ!
Now, I have made this similar vegan dish a lot recently, when we have a BBQ! It is simple to make , you can add & change whatever you want in this pasta dish. You can eat it like this or use it like a side dish. It is great with home-made vegan burgers or with some grilled fish on the side & of course with some good non-vegan sausages too. It is best made a few hours before dinner, 3 hours is best!! Enjoy it however you like it! 🙂 Here we go:
Recipe: For 4 persons
Ingredients:
a vegan red sun-dried tomato pesto, home-made or bought, about gr , this was half a pot of 190 gr. // If you are NOT eating vegan: a normal red pesto, you can make my home-made version: here!
400 gr string beans, top & ends removed, washed & cleaned/ These are flatter, longer green beans, in Dutch: snijbonen, cut into bite size pieces, crosswise
1 pot of artichokes in olive oil, well-drained, but keep the oil for later on, cut into smaller chunks
1 can of corn, well- rinsed & well-drained
black pepper
Maldon sea salt
Roasted garlic & pepper seasoning
400 gr of good pasta like Barilla, I used fusilli
about 10 smaller heirloom colourful tomatoes or home-grown cherry tomatoes, cut lengthways into 2
Method:
1. I make this tasty pasta salad a few hours before dinner. Cook your pasta according to your packet instructions. Drain well & place into a big bowl.
2. Cook the cut up string beans in boiling water where you add 1 teaspoon of those roasted garlic & pepper seasoning,I also added a bit of Maldon sea salt. Cook until just tender.Drain. Add this to the cooked pasta. Add the drained corn as well. Mix with a spoon. Now, add about 3 tablespoons or 4 of the vegan red pesto to the pasta mix. Mix well with a spoon. Taste! It has to taste fab. I added about 1 teaspoon of that roasted garlic & pepper seasoning for added flavour. Mix. Taste again. I added some sea salt & some grins of finely black pepper. Finally, add your chunks of artichokes & mix. I also added 2 tablespoons of that artichokes oil for extra flavour. You need that! 🙂 Yum! If you think, you need to: add extra tablespoons of that vegan red pesto. I added 2 to tablespoons. Mix well & taste again. it was fab. I placed cling film over the top & put it into the fridge to sit there for at least 3 hours. Remove from the fridge 15 minutes before dinner. I served this at a BBQ 3 times. Enjoy, people! 🙂
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Sophie's Foodie Files 
Your garden is growing WAY better than ours! The weather here has been too hot and too dry. Aside from a handful of tiny tomatoes and a few zucchini, it’s been a bust. (We planted a lot more than that.)
Thank you! But now, it is better weather but before we had 3 full weeks of non stopping rain! 😦
Too bad for your zucchinis & tomatoes! I hope there will be some good growing over there in your garden in the future weeks! 🙂
Look at all the lovely vegetables you’re growing, Sophie! We haven’t had much luck with zucchini either. Delicious looking pasta! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂 Thanks!
I love simple pasta dishes like that! Perfect summer meals. And oh my gosh, my cherry tomato plants are growing like crazy, too! They definitely taste sweeter than full-sized tomatoes.
Me too, me too! 🙂 I completely agree! 🙂
I loved the tour of your garden Sophie. It’s amazing how much you’re growing. Those beets will be wonderful when they’re ready to harvest. Love the blackberries. And your salad looks very yummy xx
I am growing even more stuff, like lots more colourful beets, salad leaves, red sorrel,rhubarb, etc! I am a keen grower & gardener too! 😉
Sophie – your garden is wonderful! I must try growing beets in a long container – such a great idea! This year our weather has been dismal – still waiting for some sun and heat!
You need to do that! They need the room to grow bigger & bigger! 🙂 We had 3 weeks of non-stop rain & now, we are haing 5 days of ful sun & it is hot: 30°C!
I would love to have your garden! Perfect summer pasta dish!
Thank you big time! 🙂 Enjoy the pasta salad!
My summer squashes are all not doing well, squash borers got them.
Your tomatoes are far ahead of mine, still waiting for my first one to ripen. I have the thornless blackberry also, the fruits are so sweet. The birds love them too.
That pasta dish looks delicious with all those home grown tomatoes.
Thank you, dear Norma! I knew that you had Thornless black berries too! Birds love them so much that we put a net over the blackberries!
Your Garden is looking amazing 🙂
Thank you, Tandy!
What a productive and amazing garden! Love those berries.
Thank you & enjoy the pasta salad! 🙂
Lovely-looking garden Sophie. Can’t wait for Summer to hit here so I can indulge in pasta salads again. Yours looks great. Very pleased to see snijbonen! They’re tricky to get here in Australia and they remind me of my birth-place, Holland. *sniff*
Thank you, dear Saskia! 😉
Your garden is looking amazing, Sophie..and this pasta salad using the gifts from your garden looks amazing too! I bet I’d be so healthy if Ilved with you 🙂
You won’t be healthy all the time, 🙂
Your garden looks great Sophie! And I love pesto, it adds such a lovely burst of flavour 😀
yes, it does!
I think your garden looks awesome, Sophie! Sorry about the lack of courgette success, but glad you enjoyed some anyway. Love the pasta dish … adding artichokes definitely makes it special! 🙂
Shirley
Thanks, Shirley! Enjoy!
Lovely looking veg and sunshine in Belgium 🙂
Oooh,…thank you, Candy ! 🙂
Sophie your garden is amazing!!! That’s too bad about the courgettes, but thornless blackberries- how cool!!! And this divine dish looks great too. Mmmmm pesto…
I am happy that you love it, dear Koko! 🙂
Considering all the rain you have had, your garden looks like it is doing well. Your pasta salad sounds great with all the vegetables in it.
Thanks, Karen! 🙂
Oh those fresh veggies look SO GOOD! You are inspiring me to get planting this Spring!
Do that, do that! Home grown is best!
I’m always impressed by your gardening skillz 🙂
oooh,…A big thank you, Barb! 🙂
Your garden is flourishing my friend. So much better than mine 😉
Thank you, Kiran! 🙂
wonderful garden very impressive, and lovely appetizer can I have one?
Thank you, Rebecca! 🙂 You can have those tasty appetizers! No problem! They are so easy to make too!
Wow!!! You have so much! I have garden envy 😉
:)!
I’m in awe of your garden. ♥
Those tomatoes are so beautiful. =0)
yep, they are georgous & tasty too!