Creamy Goat Cheese and Arugula over warm Penne Pasta

I had the day off and decided to fix dinner tonight!! I also wanted to shop, and I shopped WAY too long to fix anything major! I was also craving Arugula so I decided to search for recipes! Anyway, I came across  a few recipes for this goat cheese and arugula pasta, so I looked at a few to get some ideas and I turned the recipe  into my own as I always do! The ingredients were pricey but the pasta was refreshingly light yet delightfully filling, jam packed with flavors of all sorts and the big plus–it was QUICK. A 15 minute meal here! You can add a meat to it, artichokes, onion etc. This will be served again and again!


Creamy Goat Cheese and Arugula over warm Penne Pasta

    5 Oz  Herb goat cheese

    1 cup of cubed cherry tomatoes
           
     2 ½ cups coarsely chopped Arugula
           
     3 cloves of Garlic minced

     1/4 cup of olive oil

    1/4 cup of sliced kalamata olives
   
    9 Oz Penne Pasta

    3 slices of bacon fried.   

 Salt and Pepper to taste


Cook your Penne.
Heat olive oil, then saute the minced garlic cloves in the oil for about 30-45 seconds and set aside.
In a large bowl combine the Arugula, half of the goat cheese (crumbled ) the tomatoes and the olives.

 When the pasta is done, drain and pour into the olive oil and garlic mixture. Pour the mixture into the bowl and crumble the bacon and the rest of the goat cheese on top, salt and pepper then stir and enjoy! A VERY yummy meal!!