Sristi Veggie Pasta

ok so it took me sooooo long to make a non-sweet dish.anyways finally made my own creation...let me name it...umm.. creation veggie pasta...i know thats the most boring name with which a food has ever had the misfortune of bein named...but well the food cant complain.after all it was created by me :D

anyways it was one of those days when i was like i wanna have pasta...and good one at that...now i have this small guy in my house called gokul...he makes pasta...but well his pasta making is like put everything together and put sauce on top....like our local 'chowmein'....strangely it tastes good...but well..

so again i asked my digital best fren google as to what to do...but today he didn help me very much (yes its a he....girls dun like me and vice versa)...he came up with some fancy names which of course wudn b available here....so i went sadly to the kitchen and saw what i had?they were

• pasta...penne types
• mozarella cheese...lots of it.... as much as u like..all has to be grated
• tomatoes...i used 3 big ones
• garlic...1 whole thing...sliced and chooped....of all things i like chopping garlic
• processed cheese cube ...1 cube
• basil...every hindu house has a basil plant...its a religious thing to have.so obviously we ALWAYS have fresh basil in the house (thats y my mom doesnt get very happy when i use basil in food.i particularly like basil leaves in ginger tea.but like i said it is holy so i dun get to have much of that...i dunno what logic.ask mom)...and i was lucky again.since it is winter the lower parts of the plant also had some dried leave...so i had a combination of fresh and dried leaves...i took a handful of it...
• mayonnaise..i had garlic mayo but i think simple one will also do.
• olive oil...little bit
• pepper..according to the taste
• lastly salt.

i put the pasta to boil.with a little salt.while this was boiling i made tomato puree.and shredded the basil with hand.who's going to waste the smell of the leaves on a knife??after that i heated oil in a pan.once it was real hot i put in the garlic and saute-ed (is that the spelling?basically i just moved it around with a spoon)till it was golden brown.then i added the tomato puree.and let it boil for a while in a low flame.by this time the paste was done.i drained it and washed it with cold water then i mixed this thing with the salt, pepper,shredded cheese and garlic mayonnaise (i think garlic or simple doesnt make much difference...afterall we already used garlic for the sauce).i mixed the thing with my hand.spoon was too difficult to use and anyways i thought the spoon wud break the pasta (the bonus bein i got to lick off the cheese mayo combination)this mixture i microwaved at 540 for 6 minutes (all these temperatures and the time was whatever numbers that tickled my fancy...) while this was being done i put the basil in the tomato sauce..and contiued to cook it in a low flame.i like basil slightly raw thats y i removed the sauce before the leaves actually cooked.you can leave it on till the leaves get cooked completely it doesn make a difference to the taste.this i know cuz when i re-heated the sauce to give the pasta to dad the leaves got cooked completely.i tasted it...not much difference.anyways whatever you sauce is like take it and pour it over you pasta...which should be done by now.then grate a cube of processed cheese over it and microwave it fr about 5 minutes at 360...or till the cheese over the pasta melts.
serve...today my cousins had come over so it was fun eating it...cuz like penelope cruz says 'the most important ingredient is sharing your food with someone you love'.....he he he...ok so i can get pretty ummmm .....cheesy sometimes!