5 ingredients, 15 minutes

ingredients:

1. (whole grain) pasta,
2. green asparagus,
3. roasted pine nuts,
4. garlic,
5. parmesan cheese.

you also need: salt, pepper, olive oil, and a dash of lemon juice or white wine.

how-to:

1. roast pine nuts without burning them (on a nine-scale stove, I use 8 and it takes about 3 minutes. do not wanter away for this. really. just don’t.)
2. when the pasta is in the pot (I’m assuming 10 minutes pasta), put a bit of olive oil in a frying pan and add the asparagus (on a nine-scale stove, I use 6). keep tossing it gently for 5 minutes.
3. season to taste with sea salt & freshly ground black pepper, add a dash of lemon juice and/or white wine.
4. add thinly sliced garlic (I use three cloves b/c I believe in the blessed power of three). keep gently stirring for another 4 minutes.
5. for the last minute, add the roasted pine nuts.

Serve in a decorative heap on top of the pasta sprinkled generously with freshly grated parmesan cheese.

(If you want it even fancier, you can fry up some salmon or king prawns in a separate pan.)