Left overs......again????

The pasta and yellow tomatoes


Texas Olive Ranch olive oil - http://www.texasoliveranch.com/


What was left........


Had some left overs sitting around that I wanted to use up. I had some boneless, skinless chicken breasts that I marinated in Italian dressing and grilled after rubbing them w/some herbs de Provence. I also had some REALLY good yellow salad tomatoes that we picked up at Costco this past weekend, some left over red grape tomatoes, and some left over fresh Basil that I really needed to use up.

Of course my wife wants everything to be healthy, so here's what I did.

• Cooked one box of whole-wheat rotini pasta and drained
• sliced up two breasts, kind of a large dice-but I sliced them thin
• halved about a dozen of the yellow tomatoes and about a dozen red grape tomatoes (I ended up using all of them up)
• medium dice on about 12 ounces of fresh mozzarella cheese
• 2 large cloves garlic - minced
• about a dozen black olives - chopped
• about a half teaspoon of red pepper flakes ( I like it spicy!!)
• salt to taste
• about 6 large basil leaves - finely chopped
• about 1/4 cup olive oil - I used Texas Olive Ranch extra virgin, it's grown and processed in Carrizo Springs, Texas. It has a wonderful fresh flavor, we save it for dishes like this where the olive oil flavor can 'stand out' and really be appreciated.
• mixed everything together and chilled for about 2 hours - just before I served, I squeezed some fresh lemon over it.

This was a large hit at our house!!! Sorry for the poor quality pictures.....

I'm AWFUL about getting pictures, and almost didn't get any.....it was almost gaone by the time I got the camera out.