Summer BEGS for easy, fast and fresh meals. It is often too hot and too late by the time we roll to the dinner table to make anything that takes a long time. This easy summer dinner recipe is homemade, fast, kid approved and really capitalizes on one of my most favorite, fresh, seasonal ingredients - BASIL! The smell of basil screams summer to me and this Homemade Pesto Pasta dish is one you will love to make whether summer or not! BASIL - it is beautiful, fairly easy to grow, inexpensive to purchase and oh so FRAGRANT. . . it is tastey too and happens to be the star of this pasta dish. What makes this dish an Easy Summer Dinner? . . ....