Dinner Tonight: 'Garbage Pail' Pasta
Dinner Tonight: 'Garbage Pail' Pastan is If you have cherry tomatoes, raisins, pine nuts, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the hazelnuts you could follow this main course with the Plum Strudel With Hazelnuts as a dessert.
Instructions
Bring a large pot of salty water to boil. Cook the spaghetti until al dente, reserve 1/2 cup of pasta cooking water, and drain.
In the meantime, heat the olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat and cook the nuts until gently browned and fragrant.
Add the tomatoes, capers, and oregano, and cook until the tomatoes wilt and break down, stirring occassionally.
Add the olives, raisins, and half the parsley and season with a big pinch of salt, the continue cooking for a minute or two.
Add the drained pasta to the skillet and toss.
Add a little pasta water and toss over low heat as the pasta melds with the sauce, removing from the heat before it gets too dry.
Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and the remaining parsley.