Romanesco & Pinenut Pasta

Yay!  It's the crazy space-age vegetable again!  It makes me so happy when I see its spiky little face in our vegetable box.  I don't know why, but there's just something about it that makes me smile.  (Feel free to now call me the crazy vegetable lady). 

Last time around, we roasted our romanesco, so we wanted to try something different with it this time.  So we steamed it for about ten minutes, then decanted it to a big bowl and stirred in some sundried tomatoes, garlic, and a scattering of pinenuts.  Because we were lazy, we didn't toast the pinenuts, but you could do if you wanted a punchier flavour.

We heaped the vegetables on top of a big bowl of spaghetti and dived in.  The pinenuts provided a welcome crunch against the softness of the tomatoes, and the flavour of the romanesco really shone through, making it a perfect autumn supper.