Versatile Pasta Dish with Garden Vegetables and Fresh Basil

I really like this dish. It's so versatile in that you can add as many vergetables you like or to jazz it up a bit include some protein like chicken or chorizo...maybe add some prawns or scallop or some other seafood.

It's not really for the weight conscious person because of the cream.

Rotini Pasta with Garden Vegetables and Fresh Basil

3 large garlic cloves, chopped
1 sweet onion, cut 1/2 inch chunks
1/2 each green, red, yellow pepper cut 1/2 inch chunks
2 large tomatoes cut in chunks
25 snow peas, cut in half
10 basil leaves, rolled and diced
500 ml whipping cream
White wine
*Rotini pasta or fusilli or other similar sized pasta
Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

*Depending on how you will have this, side dish or main dish you can make as little or as much pasta as you want. I used 2/3 cup dried pasta to serve three people. (There were leftovers)

Cook pasta to your liking. Microwave peppers and snow peas for about 1 minute and a half.

Saute garlic and onions, add salt. Add peppers, snow peas and tomatoes and continue to saute. Add salt and pepper to taste; add white wine. Add whipping cream and let it reduce (you may not want to add this all at once in case you reduce it too much). It will reduce fairly quickly so watch it. You want enough liquid in there so when you add the pasta and parmesan cheese it won't soak it all up and become dry.

Once reduced, add pasta, parmesan cheese and basil. Mix well until pasta is coated.

You can serve it with cracked pepper on top and/or sprinkled with more parmesan cheese.