Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Matches and Pasta with proscuitto and peas

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date! The theme is Matches and here is my matchstick yard!

 For the Dinner Date, I made pasta with proscuitto and peas.

half an onion thinly sliced

2 cloves garlic minced

3 tbs olive oil

1 tbs unsalted butter

1 pkg proscuitto cut slices into matchstick sized strips

1 lb pasta

juice of half lemon

2 c cooked peas

1 tsp dried parsley

1 tomato chopped

1/4 tsp red pepper flakes

Cook the pasta in salted water

In olive oil and butter, saute proscuitto until browned.  Add onions until softened then add garlic, parsley.  Add tomatoes for a few minutes then mix in a cup of pasta water.  Mix in spaghetti, parmesan, lemon juice, more olive oil.  Add more pasta water if you like.  Grate some pepper to taste.