‘Drive’ is officially the worst movie I have ever seen. Like, wtf. Laura and I rented it to have a girls night with our other roomie Steph, and thought that Ryan Gosling would be a wonderful choice to watch. Well, he was definitely attractive as usual, but holy sh*t….you keep waiting for something to happen in the movie…and after many MANY awkward silences, people start getting their heads blown off. Forks end up in eyeballs. And knives are used a lot on people’s bodies. It was just too much. No story line, just blood and guts. I can’t believe people actually got paid to say 4 words in that movie. I think I might have had nightmares. Pretty sure I did. Especially since my bed was wet when I woke up….kidding. I haven’t wet the bed since….college. Ew. That was gross of me.
Guess what’s coming up soon?! The CrossFit Open! I’m not crazy excited yet. I don’t usually get excited about competitions until the day of and since it’s 5 weeks long, it makes it a lil tough to get excited about. But I did get a lil more excited the other day when my friend Erica posted a video she recorded of me and then it was posted on the CrossFit Southwest Region facebook page. Her website her awesome, all about empowering women. Who wouldn’t love that! Women are great.
Wanna see the cutest thing on the entire planet? Check it. Weener dogs should rule the world.
So this recipe turned out delish, even the non paleo eating friends thought so! It’s pretty intense in the flavor department so you don’t need too much of it. A little goes a long way. And look what I did…I made another cooking video!! Sorry it’s long ways. Just getting used to a new camera. Really, I’m lucky it even recorded. Laura and I had no idea what we were doing with that mini camcorder. I only say ‘um’ and ‘so’ like 46 times in this video. Much better than the 47 times in the first video. GETTING BETTER EVERY TIME!
Sundried Tomato Pesto Pasta
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
For the Pesto
- 3 oz sundried tomatoes
- 1 cup walnuts
- 1–1.5 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup basil leaves
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
For the pasta
- 3 zucchini, julienne cut or sliced into fettuccine noodles
- 1 bundle of asparagus
- 1lb chicken, diced
- 1/3 cup chicken broth or water
- 2–4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried tarragon
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Place your sundried tomatoes in a bowl with 1-2 cups of water or until the sundried tomatoes are covered to soften.
- Now heat up a medium sized skillet under medium heat with 1-2 tablespoons olive oil and throw in your diced chicken to begin to cook down, tossing the chicken randomly to help cook on all sides.
- Add your basil, tarragon, and thyme to the chicken.
- Once your sundried tomatoes are soft, pull out your food processor, place sundried tomatoes along with your walnuts and puree. Then add the rest of the pesto ingredients and slowly pour in the olive oil in while it’s turned on so you can see how much olive oil you will really need. Add until you find your preferred consistency.
- Now heat up a large skillet under medium heat with 1-2 tablespoons olive oil and toss in your zucchini noodles and asparagus.
- Add your chicken broth or water to the noodles and asparagus to help cook the noodles down.
- After about 3-5 minutes, add your sundried tomato pesto to the zucchini noodles along with the chicken.
- Cover and let cook for 3-5 minutes.
- Serve with some leftover sundried tomatoes on top!
- Consume!!
Love the video. Thanks for your inspiring and hilarious posts!
Thanks so much Valerie!!
This dish was great! We made it tonight with a few small modifications (used spaghetti squash…grilled the chicken). Check it out how we did!: http://wholefoodhalfass.tumblr.com/post/18049039634/feb-21-dinner-sun-dried-tomato-pesto-pasta-this
Love your videos – especially the dancing in the middle – hilarious!
One note about the recipe: you talk about the asparagus in the video, but don’t mention what to do with it in the actual recipe itself. Just a heads up 🙂
Thanks for letting me know Sarah!! I changed that haha! Thank you again!
HILAR!
I love how ‘food process’ is now a verb, LOL!
“Otherwise, it just won’t food process”. I was giggling my ass off at this.
Juli, tarragon is pretty French not Italian 😉
Sorry, I’m ANAL LIKE THAT!
<3 u
I love the italian spice tarragon. it’s so italiany.
Love u
OH! Wifey and I LOVED “Drive”. You so crasay.
You are legit high Pat
Juli –
Just made this for late “lunch” and having leftovers for dinner. Its is delicious! Chicken Enchilada stew is in the crock pot to cook while Im at work tonight. Thanks for making paleo tolerable – it’s very hard working in a restaurant around unhealthy food all day and sticking to a clean eating regime but your website has helped a ton!! Thanks again!
Glad you are liking the recipes! Keep at it, i know how hard that can be in those situations!
Love Ryan Gosling, but didn’t like that movie very much, either.
You are so funny. I love how you don’t let not having the right kitchen implements slow you down at all from hosting a cooking blog. Or is it a vlog now?!! I’m not up on the techie lingo.
BTW-love, love, love the chicken enchilada stew!!
Thanks so much Jaimee!! I really appreciate hearing stuff like that since I have no idea what I’m doing lol
I didn’t really get the weiner dog thing (or sausage dog as we call them in Aus) until I saw a tiny tiny weiner dog puppy when I was running along the beach yesterday, it was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life! I totally want one now.
Great video, although I think the dance segment should have been longer!
Greatest dog in the whole world. I love them.
Hi Juli! That movie was so bizarre that when we were watching it we just decided to go ahead and fill in some conversation to make the time pass. Unfortunately, we talked over the actual words they said 8 minutes later – but we decided it didn’t matter anyway and wasn’t worth rewinding. I also wanted to say hi because I’ve never commented on your site before, although I pretty regularly feel like I have something good to say (but I’m probably wrong). Complete side note: You should try the Secret Clinical Strength deodorant. The trick is to put it on at NIGHT. Odd, I know, but it works. I, like you had tried everything. It has something to so with getting used to your body while you are staying at one consistent temperature while you sleep, so that in the morning when you start moving it’s already ready to go. Hope it helps! Worth a shot anyway. (Target is always cheapest.) Good luck at the Open. I’m doing it too for the first time for Alpine. I was there the day you won at our open house – good job by the way. Sorry to be so creepy on your site, but somehow I feel like you will totally get this. Thanks! And THANKS for PALEOMG because it KICKS A$$!
Thanks so much for commenting Jess! I actually use secret clinical strenght, then sometimes man deo. Good tip!! Good luck in the open to you too!! Kick some butt out there! And tell Robby hello! I love that guy!
Drive rules, ur movie radar is whack!
You.are.drunk.
First time I’ve seen or heard of you – great video. I only googled to see what I could do with a jar of sun-dried tomato pesto someone bought me but couldn’t turn off. Great recipe and you make it look easy.
I also watched because only 10ish minutes – would have liked longer dancing too, but then may not have watched if I saw the longer minutes.
Good For You – keep it up.
Lol thanks for checking my blog out Dinah! And for watching my video! Hopefully I will be able to get them shorter and shorter in the future