Garlic Fettuccini with Broiled Grape Tomatoes: A quick weekday meal

I like making quick and easy meals during the week so I was very excited when my sister sent me a ton of flavored pastas. You can find nice fresh or flavored pastas in most grocery stores these days. I really didn't want to hide the flavor of the pasta so I went with something totally simple.


Of course I had to try the Garlic flavored pasta first. I decided to not use sauce so I could really taste the pasta.

Instead I used some of these little gems...


I got my pasta water boiling and then fired up my toaster oven to Broil.


I halved a handful of grape tomatoes and sprinkled them with some kosher salt. I put them on the baking pan for my toaster oven and threw them in for about 4 minutes.


I pulled them out just as they started to collapse.


In another pan I put some olive oil and butter (about a tbs of olive oil and half of butter) on a super low flame just until the butter melted. I got the pasta in the water for just a few minutes and pulled it out and dunked it in the olive oil and butter mix.


Toss it up!


Throw a little grated cheese on top and you are ready to enjoy! So simple but so good!