November 15, 2008: Warm Pasta & Sweetness Murphy Salad

After a somewhat decadent nighttime out on Fri too inward anticipation of to a greater extent than decadence on Sunday, I was keen to gear upwards something comparitively low-cal too nourishing for dinner on Saturday. Unusually, I consulted our pocket-size cookbook collection rather than my online bookmarks too picked out this warm pasta salad from vegie food. It takes payoff of the season's asparagus, features sprinklings of feta too pino nuts, too amongst pasta too sweetness spud involved it's definitely a sum repast on its own.

Though it's colourful too contains only about lovely ingredients, this salad didn't quite move for us. The proportions seemed out of whack, amongst likewise much pasta too non nearly plenty spinach or pino nuts. The feta nosotros bought was tough too the flavours never actually mingled, fifty-fifty equally nosotros ate it gradually over a discover of days. I'm certain there's a swell salad waiting to flare-up out from this element list, but I intend it'll involve novel proportions too a dissimilar dressing to actually shine.

Warm pasta & sweetness spud salad

750g sweetness potato
2 tablespoons olive oil
500g pasta
325g marinated feta cheese inward oil
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 bunch asparagus, chopped into curt lengths
100g infant spinach leaves
2 tomatoes, chopped
40g pino nuts, toasted

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C. Peel the sweetness spud too chop it into large cubes; plonk it into a large baking dish, drizzle it amongst the olive oil, flavor it amongst common salt too pepper, too stir it all through. Bake the sweetness spud until tender, nigh xx minutes.

While the sweetness spud is baking, boil a large saucepan of H2O too produce the pasta, draining it when it's done.

Drain the fossil oil from the feta too whisk the fossil oil amongst the balsamic vinegar equally a dressing - nosotros added only about extra olive fossil oil hither to brand upwards for our lack of marinating oil.

Steam the asparagus until tender, but even then keeping its colour.

Stir all of the ingredients together inward a large bowl - the sweetness potato, pasta, asparagus, feta, spinach, tomatoes, pino nuts too lastly the dressing.