Meatless Monday: Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Spaghetti

May 12, 2014

Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Spaghetti  Sarcastic Cooking

Hold the phone! When did this happen? One second I am living in Chiberia and kept indoors by a polar vortex and then the next second the trees are green and it is 85. WTF, Mother Nature?!? I could have used a little more easing into this season. Don’t you agree?

Not that I am complaining. Well, I guess I am kind of complaining…but if you know me well enough, you know I am pretty much Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men inside the body of a 30 year old woman, so you are probably used to it by now.

Blistered Tomatoes

I just needed more time to mentally prepare myself to walk into Target and be bombarded by string bikinis (and I mean string…) and cropped tops. Ummm…. What percentage of the population can actually pull off crop tops? Last I heard, I thought Americans were generally obese. And isn’t the average size of a woman a 12? I am a 12 and you won’t see me in any crop tops. I wear my shirts extra long. Extra coverage.

Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Pasta  Sarcastic Cooking

I won’t even wear shorts, because the shorts of my youth, which had some length to them, are long gone. Nobody needs to see half of these post baby cheeks. Am I right?

Ok, so not all of the season change is bad. I am excited to go on long walks with Andy and Weezer. I am excited for iced coffee being socially acceptable again. I am excited for open windows, sunglasses, and country music. Country music is my go to summer music genre. It is just so easy going.

Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Spaghetti  Sarcastic Cooking

I am excited for fruit!!! I am excited for tomato season! Yessssss! To be ready for tomato season, I have an easy pasta recipe bursting with flavor. Make it tonight and pop open those windows… Well unless you are dealing with thunder storms or snow like half the country. Sorry ‘bout cha!

Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Spaghetti

Meatless Monday: Blistered Tomato and Ricotta Spaghetti

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Pint Cherry/Grape Tomatoes
  • ¼ Cup Olive Oil
  • Salt and Pepper
  • ½ Pound Spaghetti Noodles
  • Zest from ½ Lemon
  • Juice from 1 Lemon
  • ½ Cup Ricotta
  • Pinch of Crushed Red Pepper Flakes
  • 2 Tablespoons Fresh Chopped Basil

Instructions

  1. Preheat your broiler to low. Place tomatoes on a baking sheet, coat in olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Place tomatoes on the middle rack, not too close to the broiler. Broil for ten minutes. Flip tomatoes and then broil for ten more minutes.
  2. While the tomatoes are cooking, make the pasta according to the instructions on the packaging. Drain noodles and set off to the side.
  3. In a large bowl, toss the spaghetti together with the tomatoes, lemon zest, and lemon juice, and the oil they were cooked in. Break a few tomatoes for extra flavor in the sauce. Portion out two large or four small servings of pasta and top each with a dollop of ricotta, crushed red pepper flakes, and basil.

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  • jacquelyn ljungqvist
    June 4, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    I also couldn’t figure out where to put the lemons in so I mixed them with the ricotta and put the zest on to with the pepper flakes. It was amazing. Thank you so.,

  • Jessica @ stuck on sweet
    May 27, 2014 at 11:09 am

    You are too funny! I am a HUGE fan of pasta and I just happen to love ricotta and blistered tomatoes. 😉 Country is also my music of choice for the summa – it pairs will with a beer and the sun!

  • Jessica
    May 16, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    Making right now and can’t find where the lemons fit in…going to try it at the end. Either way I am sure it will be delicious!

    • Stefanie
      May 16, 2014 at 4:54 pm

      Oops! Mix it in when you mix in the oil and tomatoes.

      • Jessica
        June 1, 2014 at 4:29 pm

        Thanks! Have made this twice. As delicious as it looks. One time I used mozzarella instead of ricotta and it worked well too.

  • Jen
    May 16, 2014 at 8:19 am

    As soon as I came across your blog I thought – man, that is so what I should have called my blog! Equally appalling as the crop tops are the women who wear bikini bottoms that are too small – the extra cheek hanging out is not flattering…

  • ATasteOfMadness
    May 15, 2014 at 11:35 am

    I am so excited for tomato season as well. Yay! This looks fantabuous 🙂

  • Susan
    May 14, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    Want to know who can pull off crop tops? My teeny tiny teenage nieces, that’s who. Me on the other hand? I’ll be sitting in with a/c on with my full coverage top eating this.

  • Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
    May 13, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    It’s cuhhhrazy how quickly it became summer! one second-winter. Next-summer. okaaaaay. I’m cool with it, could’ve used some more spring but I’m still happy 😛 and I’m happy about this pasta-I love ricotta so um yeah YUM

  • Francesca
    May 13, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    This looks lovely. The simple stuff is always the best! We’re experiencing reminisce of polar vortexity here too 🙁

  • Sadye
    May 13, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    Yum! Bring on tomato season indeed, with recipes like this! And also — I’m not sure that most PRE-baby cheeks need to be seen in the shorts they make now :/