Monday, May 10, 2010

I tried a new recipe for supper tonight...called Olive Cheese Pasta

I cooked some spaghetti and made the sauce as follows:

1 (8 oz.) pkg cream cheese
1/3 cup green olives, chopped
2/3 cup almonds, chopped
2 tblsp juice from the green olives.

The original recipe called for much more olives and almonds, but I cut it back and it tasted great.

I put the 1/3 cup of olives and 2/3 cup of almonds in the food processor and chopped them up, then stirred them and the juice into the cream cheese in a separate bowl. I warmed it a bit in the microwave, then let it sit on the warming tray until we were ready to eat. I stirred it into the bowl of cooked spaghetti when we were ready to eat. We both enjoyed it. There is some leftover for another meal. It might even taste good as a cold spaghetti salad.

We had some leftover peas and some pickled beets in the refrigerator, so we had that for supper too.