This Date Night Pasta comes together in less than 30 minutes and is loaded with flavour! It’s made with burst tomatoes, sautéed shiitake mushrooms and garlic in a creamy, inviting pasta!
Hands up who has had a consistent date night every week? Okay, if your hand went up, serious kudos to you. This is something that if I’m being honest, we struggle with over in our household. Work kinda consumes like 90% of my life (the other 10% is split between Netflix and family and friends, ya know). However, whenever we are away from home, we really make an effort. In fact, we’ve been three times in two weeks which is a NEW record (including a vegan brunch!).
There are a ton of reasons why date night doesn’t happen. But when it does, I always feel so much happier and lighter. So while I can’t list all the reasons date night can’t happen, I can list one that it can: this Date Night Burst Tomato, Mushroom and Garlic Creamy Pasta.
Okay, I kid you not we timed this and it did NOT even take 30 minutes. I made it on the fly for an impromptu dinner and with one bite, Gavin was sold. He wanted me to tell him exactly how I made it, because he kinda needed this in his life forever. Fast forward to now and it’s my go to for a quick dinner/impromptu date night. That’s the magical thing about date night: you don’t need to have it outside of the house. We usually throw a tablecloth over the table, put on some cute clothes, and sometimes even light a candle.
Okay, the candle part was a joke, but really, you could easily do that. It’s all about making that night super special for the both of you. It doesn’t have to last hours or cost lots of of money, but it does have to be delicious.
This Date Night Burst Tomato, Mushroom and Garlic Creamy Pasta (don’t you love that name?) achieves just that. Honestly, I would so go all out on the best vegan ingredients that you can find for this. Quality matters when you have such powerful ingredients shining through. We went for the best organic tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms and pasta we could find. I’m talking the fancy bronze drawn pasta so it “binds perfectly with the sauce“. It’s date night, after all.
With some amazing ingredients, a little bit of work, and lots of love, your stay in date night dreams can come true. Bonus points? Two pots to wash, two plates, and maybe two wine glasses. Happy Date Night Eating!
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Greetings, Jessica – it’s Jessica from DC! I LUV this recipe! Pasta is always a quick go-to for me. It’s usually quick, and it’s filling! In fact, this reminds me of how I first found your blog & recipes – it was your garlic focaccia bread! I was so impressed that I was able to bake FRESH, TASTY, lick-your-fingers, VEGAN bread FROM SCRATCH! You had me from there! And then, of course, your name being Jessica – it was meant to be! I am also commenting to congratulate you on being in the recent Essence.com article on 5 Female Food Bloggers folks need to know. I was SO HAPPY when I got to #5 and saw YOU. In fact, I didn’t even read what they had to say about you cuz I was so excited to see you – I went straight to your site and wrote this comment! Congrats! and I know many more wonderful things are coming your way!
Hi Jessica!!!
Aww wow that’s so amazing and I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it so much!! Thanks for reminding me that we need to make this again. I can’t believe I’m just seeing this comment. Thanks so much – I remember why I didn’t comment, I didn’t realise I was in that Essence article and I got so caught up in it that I forgot to say thank YOU for bringing it to my attention! I truly appreciate that.
Thanks for being amazing and wishing you all the best!!
<3 Jessica
Absolutely delicious! I can never find vegan cream cheese in our supermarket so I did make my own. Also threw in some roasted garlic along with some fresh. Great flavor, wonderfully creamy sauce! Came together easily too. Will definitely make again. Would also be great with some wilted spinach too. Thanks for the great recipe!
HI Jessica its Roger from Toronto. We have prepared this recipe a lot this past summer to use up loads of cherry tomatoes coming in from the garden. Each meal has been absolutely delicious, yet simple and foolproof. I think the mushrooms and the Parmesan are the secret ingredients that take this dish past expectations. I once added shallots to the initial pan and found a whole new flavour coming through. This has become a regular dish over here and thanks for posting it for us all to enjoy. Very yummy and always cleaned out pans before bedtime.
Wow thank you so much for this glowing review Roger!! I’m so happy to hear that and yes I think those are the key ingredients too! Oh wow, I need to try shallots in it too thanks for the tip. So glad you’ve been enjoying this so much!!
I was skeptical about the secret ingredient (cream cheese) in this recipe, but all of Jessica’s recipe’s I have tested out came out pretty good for me so I said why not just try it out. WOWWWW. High quality tasting dish and it’s so quick and simple and most importantly great. I’ve been raving about this to my friends.