in the kitchen: tomato & basil pesto pasta.

i don't think i will ever get to the level of cynthia over at two red bowls in terms of cooking and food styling/photography {seriously guys. if you hop on over you won't know whether you are drooling over her food or her photography}, but she certainly has pushed me to try playing around. i really didn't know what to do for this picture, but i had some tomatoes and basil left over and kinda scattered them around. hmm... perhaps next time i do this it'll be better thought out! 

in any case, i had come across this recipe a few weeks ago and had wanted to try it out. i made some minor changes to it - used canned tomatoes instead of roasted red bell peppers, pan fried my chicken instead of using rotisserie and since trader joe's had run out of penne pasta by the time i made it over, i instead bought fusilli. the resulting dish tasted slightly bland {but then again i like things a bit on the saltier side}, but it was good! i will definitely try it out again using roasted red bell peppers.

i won't repeat the ingredients and the step-by-step here, but if you are interested, take a look over here. 

happy eating!