Spring Pasta after a Summer Rain

This is just a pasta primavera. There is nothing sexy or exciting about it really. I just wanted to make something for dinner using the chopped and bagged vegetables that would otherwise probably go bad. I had bagged up half of a zucchini and a quarter of a yellow squash. I had a chunk of onion and the rest of the asparagus and the back of an eggplant wanting to be used. Leftover tomato went in, a third of a bell pepper, carrots and the basil I'd already pulled from my garden, but hadn't used. I poured in what was left in the carton of cream, added a little chicken stock and melted in a couple of cheeses to thicken it up. There was a nice summer rain this evening, reminiscent of spring showers, so the pasta primavera topped with a basil flower worked out just fine.