Recipes from my garden.

This year we have taken on the task of making a vegetable garden.  Its our first time ever, growing our own veggies.  I helped my mom grow veggies, when we were younger.  So I had some memories of that, and some knowledge to fall back on.  I will admit, not everything grew like it should, but we feasted heavily on our small bounty.  We also have big plans for our garden adventure next year.

Our biggest crop was, of course tomatoes.  Yesterday I sent my niece out to gather all the colorful tomatoes from the garden.  We had a huge basket full after the rain fall last week.  I wanted to make good use of them.  I also had a few bunches of basil growing on my deck, and we always have chicken on hand.  This is the recipe I came up with.

Tomato, basil and chicken pasta.

I had a pretty good sized basket of grape tomatoes, and a few regular sized tomatoes.
a huge handful of basil
3 large chicken breasts
2 large cloves of garlic
1 med onion






To start, I put a little oil in a big pan, and sauted the garlic and onion.  I sliced the chicken and put that in next. I just wanted the onions to be soft, and the chicken to no longer be pink on the outside.  This took about 10 minutes on med heat.  If you cook it too high, you will burn the garlic, and it will taste bitter.

Next step, I quartered the bigger tomatoes, and halved the grape tomatoes and added those to the pot.

I cooked them on med heat, uncovered until they started to blister and melt down.  Then I added the handful of fresh picked basil, and salt and pepper to taste.

Let simmer on med, for about 8-10 minutes.  It simmered away while the pasta was boiling.  

Serve over pasta and enjoy.