Three Ingredient Dinner? Yes, please!

A THREE ingredient dinner you ask?  Is that even possible?  Oh, yes, my friends.  Yes, it is indeed. http://makingeverydaygourmet.blogspot.com/p/favorite-recipes.html

Here are the raw ingredients that I started with:

The raw beginnings of a fast and fresh dinner.

 

Whole wheat pasta (not processed with eggs), two bunches of raw asparagus and a four ounce package of plain goat cheese.  Start by cleaning the asparagus - remove the rubber bands, wash and snap the woody ends off of the stalks.  Place them on a rimmed cookie sheet, toss with a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper and roast at about 425 degrees for about 20 minutes. 

 

While the asparagus is roasting, cook the pasta in salted (like the ocean) boiling water.  Once the pasta is cooked, take about a cup of the water out and reserve.  Drain the pasta and crumble in the goat cheese, adding the reserved pasta water if needed to loosen the sauce.  Cut the roasted asparagus into inch to inch and a half lengths and toss with the pasta and goat cheese.  If desired, garnish with fresh snipped chives and viola!  Dinner is served:

 



A delicious, fresh spring dinner made from a mere three ingredients!



Now, my husband is going to be a bit of a stickler on this point, so, to be fair, I must disclose that the freshly snipped chives are a fourth ingredient, and the olive oil used for roasting the asparagus is technically a fifth ingredient, but come on.  That's just being picky because, start to finish, this takes less than 30 minutes to throw together.  It is also delicious, in my opinion, but I love asparagus and goat cheese.  My older two children do not, so they choked it down with the promise (read: bribe) of dessert, but my son enjoyed his asparagus ("sticks") and pasta.  I enjoyed it, too.