| Prep Time | 15 minutes |
| Cook Time | 30 minutes |
| Passive Time | overnight soaking |
| Servings |
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Ingredients
- 6 whole tomatoes split into quarters
- 1 whole yellow onion all chopped up
- 6 cloves garlic smashed (PEEL IT FIRST!)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- .25 tsp salt
- 6 servings pasta
- 1 cup cashews SOAKED OVER NIGHT! THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!
- 1 handful basil, fresh chopped
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Instructions
- First, prepare for your meal of love and put your beautiful, expensive cashews in a big bowl and leave them there overnight while you dream of their beautiful, exquisite form. Maybe write a sonnet about them.
- It is the next day! Writer, you are in love with your story and therefore you are in love with life so go put that stove on 400.
- Line a pan with tinfoil or aluminum foil. Wait. What is it? When did this word change? Resist the urge to look it up and just use the shiny stuff.
- Look at all your adorable ingredients. They are the character in the story called DINNER. Love them up. Maybe kiss them quickly. Make sure nobody is watching
- Put all the tomatoes, onions, garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper on top of the lined baking sheet. ADORE THEM!
- Find the olive oil and drizzle its juice all over the vegetables on the sheet. Do not breathe heavily. This is not porn. This is dinner.
- Feel guilty that your brain even went there.
- Put it in the oven and shut it. Are you feeling ashamed? It's okay. It's all behind the oven door now. Keep it all back there, hidden, for 20 minutes.
- Take the pan out. Skin the tomatoes. Dear God! What have you become? It started out so lovingly and now you are skinning tomatoes! YOU ARE A WRITER NOT A DEMON! YOU ARE NO HANNIBEL! Take no pleasure in this step. Also be careful not to burn your fingers.
- Cook pasta according to its directions.
- Hide it all in the oven again for ten minutes and breathe deeply. Practice your mantras. Repeat after me, "I cook with love. I cook with love. I cook with love."
- You know those cashews you've been drowning all night? Put them in a blender. Add the vegetables and their juices. Blend. Blend it until smooth until there's no damn evidence that these things were once separate entities. Add salt.
- Mix it up with the pasta. Eat it. Check for cameras.