Death by Pasta

[pasithea]

Since my pay raise was kind of small we celebrated with dinner at home. I made something kind of off the cuff but it worked well enough that I decided to codify it into a recipe. Not sure what this kind of dish is called but I know it must have a name. Here's the recipe I came up it.

== Ingredients ==
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 leek (thinly sliced)
1/2 bulb (6 cloves) garlic (crushed)
6oz fresh chanterelles (sliced)
2/3oz fresh basil
1 small zucchini (quartered and sliced)
1/4 cup fresh grated parmesan
dash of paprika
sea salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste.

mild, light ravioli (porcini and portabella ravioli were used in this dish)

== cooking ==
* Cook ravioli separately.
* Heat oil in a large skillet on medium low.
* Add chanterelles and leeks to oil, simmer until leeks are softened and becoming translucent (About 3 minutes)
* Add zucchini, garlic, basil, and paprika, stir gently uncovered about 2 minutes.
* Add salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste.
* Stir and cover 2 minutes.
* Remove lid and stir (zucchini should just be becoming translucent and soft) Remove from heat.

* Arrange ravioli on plate, sprinkle lightly with parmesan.
* Put mushroom/zucchini mix over ravioli
* Sprinkle top lightly with parmesan

Serve with salad and light wine.

It's one of those very subtle flavors and careful cooking sorts of dishes so I was very pleased it came out well. I think I based it loosely on a linguini and clam sauce recipe I used to make a long long time ago. I think the addition of cracked pine nuts or chopped walnuts might also work really well in it but... All in all, I was rather pleased with it. One of the best dishes I've made in a while IMO. (Of course it didn't hurt that the ravioli we used was also excellent)