Pasta with Fresh Herbs

I've been looking for a pasta recipe with a fresh herb and olive oil dressing.  This is an adaption of Fettuccine with Fresh Herbs from Joy of Cooking.  It was really good.  I didn't use Fettuccine because the recipes calls for 1 pound of fettuccine.  I was only making 1/4 of the recipe.  How do I measure 1/4 pound of fettuccine?  I was too lazy to look it up and more importantly I don't have fettuccine.  I know 4 cups of dried pasta is about 1 pound of pasta.  So I used a heaping cup of bowtie pasta.  I think I could have used 1 1/2 cups of bowtie pasta.  My changes were to add a minced garlic clove. I also significantly reduced the Parmesan cheese and used a little less basil.  Next time I'm going to try to make it without the cheese to eliminate a significant amount of the fat from this recipe.