Simple Mushroom Penne with Walnut Pesto

Some of you good people, unfortunately, are not familiar with this kind of food bewitchery. You’ve chose not to be a part of Team Mushroom (😭) and right now you’re looking at those lil ‘shrooms and you’re tempted to bolt straight for the hills – like the broccoli hills or something or something more regular. Actually, probably more like the no-vegetable hills. Your mouse is already moving up to that little red x because you think you don’t like mushr- WAIT STAHHPPP. I understand that mushrooms can seem a little bit weird, but plz.

Be rational with yourself.

These are not your average mushrooms.

We’re talking about a whole different beast: deep golden brown mushrooms that are bathing their little selves in a sizzling pan of high quality LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Butter. Like I said: Deep. Golden. Brown. If there was ever a time to join Team Mushroom, that time would be now.

So we’ve officially made our way into September, which means it’s fall, right? Come onnn JUST LET ME.

September means a lot of things to a lot of people. Back to school, busy season at work, mentally gearing up for the H word – what? don’t tell me you haven’t thought about the holidays yet. You know who you are – I’m talking to my twins out there who have paper chains going for the number of days until we can listen to Christmas music. When are you allowed to start? I’m a two-weeks-before-Thanksgiving kind of girl. Bjork finds ways to cope.

Most importantly, what this most lovely time of year means to me is earthy, rich, fall comfort food dishes like this are my 24/7/365. Wait, that doesn’t work. Just subtract the number of days from, like, go back and count the months before, er, but start in… ugh. You know what I mean.

I mean Simple Mushroom Penne with Walnut Pesto all day every day.

Would someone please put a soft, runny poached egg on this and eat it for breakfast so that we can truly, honestly, legitimately say this is an all day every day thing? You would basically be the winner of life.

You guys, I have some good news about the short ingredient list here. With an emphasis on the butter. WHAT ELSE IS NEW.

LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Butter (which you can buy at just about any mainstream grocery store 🎉) is an extremely delicious butter that’s made with sweet cream. Angels singing, right? One of the ways it stands out from traditional butter is the fact that it has a higher fat content – 82% if you want to get specific – which means you get an extremely rich flavor and an extra-creamy texture and the butter in your recipes just shines.

If cooking with real butter is your thing (shout out to fall and winter approaching), check out the ideas on the LAND O LAKES® European Style Super Premium Butter Pinterest board. 👈

When you’re only working with three main ingredients – in this case, pasta, mushrooms, and that beautiful, luscious butter – you better make sure that each of those ingredients is top of the line in terms of quality and taste. Because you only get THREE.

And there is nothing more wonderful for your food-loving senses than a simple, minimalist ingredient combination where every flavor and texture just shines.

PLZ BE A MUSHROOM LUVR. This is happening. Right now.