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Baked Pasta and Sauteed Kale - Quick and easy weekend meal


Nate and I love baked pasta - so easy, so good.  Just cook the pasta and drain, mix with your favorite jarred sauce, top with parmesan and mozzarella cheese and bake till bubbly and melty.  Sauteed kale is also easy, tasty, and good for you.  I sauteed an onion in olive oil for about 5 minutes, added a couple cloves of minced garlic and 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes for 30 seconds and then added the kale and continued cooking for about 10 more minutes.  We ate all the kale in the first night.  The baked pasta lasted one more day.  So tonight we are having grilled chicken and sweet potato fries (not meatless - oh well)

It is super gross outside today - cold, windy, rainy.  A little bit of freezing rain mixed in has left a decent layer on ice on the trees and fences.


So after braving an 8 mile run, I started baking.  Chocolate Sugar Cookies (from my most recent Cooks Country magazine) and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip and Butterscotch Cookies.  It is a good day to stay curled up next to the space heater with a book, a cup of coffee, and a plate of cookies.


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Once again, your father wishes he lived with you.

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March 18, 2013 at 11:09 PM
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