Easy Vegetable Pasta

I love a happy pot of grilled vegetables. Garlic, anchovies and olive oil over French beans, red onions or shallots, broccoli and mushrooms. An easy bake in the oven. These are my default veggies to go with pasta to make a happy meal. The pasta can be simply tossed aglio e olio. Dried chillies lend so much oomph. The vegetables don't even need to be tossed with the pasta. They could be served separately at the side or layered on top. I always make enough for two happy meals. There's no point in cooking the amount for just one meal. 

Had to add protein for the man. Found a solution in simple honey-garlic marinated super-lean pork tenderloin. He's happy with that. Just sous vide the crap out of it. If you don't sous-vide and only sear or oven-bake it, it will invariably turn out to be too dry and tough. Unless you use pork chops, bone-in. Then it wouldn't dry out so much so fast. #ImpieCooks2020

We're not dining at restaurants often. Or at least we haven't returned to the frequency that we used to do so. Somehow, dining out has lost its shine for us. It's not just about the dog; we're being cautious. Yes there's social distancing done, but we're not that keen to sit amongst a crowd sharing central air-conditioning for that many times a week. We do like the kitchen, and our own food. Homecooked food tastes so much better. Neither are we having that many friends over at our dining table either because the point of the current climate is not to have many friends over in any given week.