Red Pepper and Goat's Cheese Pasta

This recipe was fast and easy to make and it tasted incredible! It's definitely one of our favorite recipe's we've made so far and I'm sure we'll be making it again. Buying the pre-grilled red peppers makes the process even easier, although you can grill your own peppers if you want. The recipe calls for mixing in artichoke hearts and kalamata olives but I sadly couldn't find either in the store here so I just made it without them, still tasted amazing although I'm sure the artichokes and olives would give it an extra kick! I made a quick piece of cheese garlic bread for each of us as well so it was a great meal all together.

Ingredients

1/2 pound pasta (I used fettuccine noodles but you can use whatever you'd like)
2 tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream
4 ounces goats cheese
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
2 roasted red peppers, coarsely chopped
1 handful basil
Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions

1) Begin to cook the pasta as directed on the package. As the pasta is cooking you can make the rest of the sauce. Once the sauce is done the pasta will be perfect.

2) Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, add the chopped garlic and cook about one minute.

3) Add the cream, goat's cheese, parmesan and roasted red peppers and simmer until the cheese has melted, stirring constantly so it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.

4) Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper, add a handful of basil. You can puree with a hand blender if you'd like but I didn't and liked having the texture of the chopped peppers.

5) Drain the pasta and add it to the sauce, stirring until the pasta is coated.

6) Serve, and garnish with more parmesan and basil if desired.