I ran across a few things that I want to try to play with. The first is something that has already started to evolve into my normal repetoire. It is a simple cheese sauce that works wonderfully with any flat pasta.

   200g mascarpone cheese
   1 tbsp honey
   1 tbsp garum masala
   1/4 cup fresh basil leaves

   Mix cheese, honey and masala.  Melt directly over cooked
   pasta.  Garnish with basil.

The other idea happened today when I was messing around with dinner. I haven't tried to make anything yet. I was only caught with the taste combination at dinner. It's a simple combination of basil and black olives. I think there is potential for a nice mezze-style dish.