Penne for your thoughts

Happy Wednesday!

Another lovely spring break day today- it’s going by way too fast!  I think I’d like another week, please.

This morning I played with the coconut flour I got the other day.  I made pancakes.  I loved them but I wasn’t IN love with them.  Know what I mean?  They were good, but not good enough to post the recipe.  I’m going to try again- I want to tweak a few things before I post the recipe.

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Some more cleaning got done.  And lots and lots of laundry!  And a 2 mile run as well!

For dinner I wanted pasta and I wanted spicy so I threw this beauty of a dish together- it turned out SO great that I knew I had to share!

Simple Spicy Penne

(Print this recipe)

Ingredients:
1 package of Field Roast Italian Sausage
8 oz whole wheat penne
2 cans Muir Glen adobo fire roasted diced tomatoes (if you can’t find it you can use regular fire roasted or regular diced tomatoes, but you’ll have to add your own spiciness)
4 ish cups of spinach (I didn’t really measure, I just tossed in handfuls)

Directions:
Cook pasta according to package directions and set aside.

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Dice your field roast sausage into small pieces.

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Then sauté in a pan.

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Add your spinach to the pan and let it wilt down a bit.

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Add the spinach/sausage mixture to the pasta.

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Add tomatoes and let the mixture warm up a bit.

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Simple.  Delicious.

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Serve it up with a lovely side salad or you could add any extra veggies you want to the mixture!

Have a great evening, and happy snacking!

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Crackpot

Sorry I’ve been MIA the past week- things have been crazy!  It seems like I have a test every day lately.  And my lab practicals are killing me- why do they make this stuff so hard when we only get one hour credit for the lab?!  Grr!

Let’s see what’s come and gone since I last posted?

Valentines came and went.  My awesome hubby made dinner for us!  Pasta with veggies from The Vegan Table.  If you don’t own this cookbook you need to get it ASAP!  It’s my fav vegan cookbook! 

Oh and I have proof that he actually used the kitchen for something other than getting a glass of water- look!!

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(in case you were wondering that is Field Roast Italian style sausage- made from grains…no piggies are allowed to be harmed in our house!!)

 

I got a sweet new teapot for valentines day- le creuset!!!

 

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What else?  This past weekend I went to Austin with a couple of friends.  We went to a book signing.  It was Lisa McMann- she was super nice and signed our books and answered a million questions!  Loved her!

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It was a whirlwind trip so I didn’t really get to take many pictures.  But it did make me realize that I have never gotten to spend any time in Austin, and how crazy is that because it’s the capitol of our state, plus it just happens to be the vegan capitol of TX as well!  I’d secretly love to move there- there’s so much to do, people are always out and about and there’s tons of music!  Maybe some day!  Hubby and I are planning to go back this summer for vacay!

I better get back to the books- I have a lab practical tomorrow!  I have tons of new recipes that will be going up soon, so stay tuned!

 

Happy snacking!

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