Bread Crumb Pasta

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I saw this recipe on The Rachel Ray show recently and just knew that I needed to try it. I'm always looking for cost effective ways to make something both delicious and healthy and easy.
Everyone loved it and now it's become a regular mealtime favorite at our table. Please pretend that I garnished it with tomatoes. :O)

Ingredients:

1 pound of spaghetti

1/4 cup pine nuts or sliced almonds

2 cups fresh whole wheat bread crumbs

1 cup of Parmesan cheese

2 bunches of flat leaf parsley

1 whole lemon

2 cloves of garlic

2 or 3 tomatoes

salt, pepper, olive oil to taste

Directions:

Toast pine nuts or almonds in olive oil, add bread crumbs and cook until lightly browned, turn off heat.

Cook pasta

Add parsley to a food processor and mince. Add salt, pepper and garlic and blend in. While food processor is on, drizzle in olive oil until you get a pesto like consistency.

Add the pesto mixture to the bread crumbs and add the juice and zest of one lemon.

Mix in 1 cup of Parmesan cheese

Toss with the pasta and garnish with sliced, salted tomatoes.