Smoked Salmon Tagliatelle with Parmesan Cream

This may look like your usual pasta-with-salmon-wednesday-night dish, but I learnt a few lessons from it. One, for some reason I never used Parmesan (though I fried chopped onions instead), and I loved the idea of melting the parmesan in the cream to make a really cheesy sauce. Two, often I don't used fresh herbs as it's simply too expensive to buy them and then use them just as garnish. In this recipe, the basil is so much more than just garnish, it really adds something to it.