Pasta in Southwestern Sauce

Ingredients

• dry sherry
  ¼ cup
• minced fresh garlic
  1 tbsp
• minced shallots
  ¼ cup
• sun dried tomatoes (not oil packed) coarsely chopped
  4 unit
• finely chopped jalapeno peppers
  2 tbsp
• ripe tomatoes seeded and coarsely chopped (or 1½ cups chopped canned plum tomatoes)
  2 large
• fresh pasta of choice
  ½ lbs
• chopped fresh basil
  2 tbsp
• chopped fresh parsley
  2 tbsp