Grilled Vegetables in a Cherry Tomato Sauce

This is a wonderful pasta dish with sweet cherry tomatoes and grilled vegetables making it perfect for this time of year using seasonal squash, and zucchini. I was so lucky my kind neighbor just gave me some from her garden :-)

Ingredients:

• 4 cloves of chopped garlic 
• 1/2 a red onion chopped
• about 15 chopped cherry tomatoes
• one small zucchini sliced
• one small yellow squash sliced 
• 1/4 cup fresh chopped basil 
• a teaspoon of Italian herbs
• salt and pepper to taste 
• 8 sliced mushrooms 
• a handful of frozen peas 
• penne pasta 

Method:

1. grill the squash, zucchini, mushrooms with a little salt and pepper and a little olive oil, I use an electric grill, but an outside one would be wonderful, keep to one side
2. meanwhile, saute onion and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes
3. add the cherry tomatoes, fresh chopped basil and herbs and simmer for 20 minutes on low to make a lovely sauce 
4. add grilled vegetables and serve with al dente pasta of choice 

What is your favorite vegetable this time of year?