I went to visit my mother last weekend because we'll be with my mother-in-law this weekend. For brunch Sunday we made this easy bow tie pasta with tomatoes, basil, and freshly grated parmesan. My mother's tomatoes have blossomed but are not yet ready to harvest so we decided to use some organic canned tomatoes. Which strangely enough, taste really good in this recipe. The denseness of the flavor really lends well to the taste. Canned tomatoes always taste good in baked pasta recipes. And we did use basil from her garden.

This is another quick throw together pasta, so when you're low on food you can make this instead of getting take out. Even in a pinch you can control your ingredients and use high quality, low impact foods. It's easy to be a gourmet chef once in a while, what's a little trickier is being prepared for those days that you just don't feel like cooking.

Bow tie works really well for this so if you have it on hand try and use it. If not, no worries you could also use penne or fusilli. I got this recipe from my mom's good friend Liz Macgreger that passed away a few years back. It's not really a written down recipe but here goes.

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