Buckwheat Soba pasta with grilled Zucchini, evoo, pesto, cherry tomatoes. Vegan, glutenfree

A simple light pasta dinner! I made this for a quick dinner some 2 weeks back. We had some organic juicy cherry tomatoes from a local farm.. the last of the fresh ones of the season! so the tomatoes were getting added to everything.

My parents left 2 days back and the house feels so empty.. and I feel so perennially hungry.. hungry for sugar! I think its the hangover from all the sweet consumption in October.. I should bake up some salty crackers for some non sweet munching to keep the craving under control! but instead I baked up carrot cake muffin tops/whoopie pies.

Also baked up some glutenfree trail mix granola bar, which is already resting in our tummies.. And soon I will want to make truffles, liqueur and chocolatey fun and ingenious things ;) to put in gift baskets! ok..lets get to todays pasta...Cook the soba as instructed, throw in some pesto and grilled veggies and serve up with a side baby greens salad drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. and we are done! Not all buckwheat soba is glutenfree.

• I started up 3 pans.
• Boiled water with a little salt in a deep pan and added the soba.
• Sprayed some olive oil on a grill pan and dropped the zucchini slices and sprinkled some salt. Turn them after 3-4 minutes.
• Added a Tbsp olive oil in another small one and added a clove of minced garlic and some cherry tomatoes and red pepper flakes and let them cook on low-medium heat till some of the tomatoes burst open. ( 3-4 minutes)
• Drained the soba and dropped on a plate. Topped with some pesto. I had some frozen cilantro pinenut pesto which I nuked a bit in the mircowave. You can skip the pesto and drizzle some EVOO.
• Topped with garlicky sizzling cherry tomatoes, grilled zucchini slices, red pepper flakes, some fresh or dried basil. Adjust salt and olive oil to taste.
• Served this with some vegan-buttered grape multigrain bread slices(recipe coming shortly) and a side baby green salad with olive oil and balsamic. Its a very flexible meal.. play around to your taste buds!

Have a fun thursday! This pasta is headed to Hearth and soul blog hop and Ricki's wellness weekend., Amee's Fit and fab fridays, Lisa's allergy friendly lunchbox, ekat's Friday Potluck. and to Heallthy cooking challenge at edible entertainment , main event at Smita's page.