What’s your favorite pasta sauce?
I have always been a red sauce lover. I’ve tried many different marinara sauces, varying from homemade, to gourmet, to five-star restaurant quality, and I’m a little ashamed to admit that my favorite red sauce remains Ragu marinara meat sauce. To me, there’s nothin’ better! 😀
After a little prodding from Leah, I decided I should give pesto a shot. Last night I prepped my lunch and made pesto sauce using a Knorr Pesto Sauce packet.
Knorr Pesto Sauce
The sauce was really easy to make, and I only needed to add water and olive oil to the mix, bring it to a boil and let it simmer.
While the pesto was simmering, I boiled 7-grain Ronzoni pasta.
Ronzoni
When the noodles were ready, I drained them before adding a can of chicken to the pasta.
Pasta + Chicken
I then topped the chicken and pasta with the pesto sauce and stirred it up to evenly distribute the pesto.
Pesto Pasta with Chicken
Ryah had some for dinner last night and really enjoyed it. I thought it was pretty tasty for lunch today, too! I wonder if pesto counts as a vegetable… 😉
(For those of you wondering, my hot lunch date with Ryan had to be rescheduled to next Friday. Work duty calls!)
Weekend Plans
I’m so happy it’s almost the weekend! I have a couple things on the agenda for the weekend:
Friday:
- Dog park (It needs to stop raining! Grr!)
- Dinner and a movie with Ryan
- Intensely search craigslist for a new apartment/house to rent in Orlando (Yep, we’re moving!!!)
Saturday:
- Volunteering from 8:30 a.m. – noon
- Enjoy a Gossip Girl season 3 marathon (& make Ryan’s valentine) with two of my girlfriends
- Mall
- Dinner with Ryan
Sunday (Valentine‘s Day!):
- Hiking with Ryan and Sadie
- Drive around to search for an apartment/house to rent
- Dinner at The Capital Grille with Ryan
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Boston Market
I credit Ryan and Boston Market for opening my eyes to the deliciousness of sweet potatoes. Their sweet potato casserole is unbelievable.
How good does this sound??? Sweet Potato Casserole: Beauregard sweet potatoes slowly cooked, mashed, and mixed with spices and brown sugar. Sprinkled with an oatmeal streusel and mini marshmallows.
I instantly love anything with the word “streusel” in it.
After sampling the yummy side off Ryan’s plate back in college, I realized how good sweet potatoes actually are after living my whole life as a sweet potato hater.
One of my favorite things to do with Ryan when we first started dating was pick up a bag of tortilla chips and swing through the Boston Market drive-thru to order big side of their creamed spinach to bring back to his apartment. Between the two of us, we polished off this special treat on several occasions. Yum!
What is one of your favorite simple date memories?
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Oh yum – The Capitol Grille is our favorite restaurant! We go all the time – get the lobster mac!!! 🙂
I loooooove pesto! 🙂 so tasty. Ive never tried the packet kind though. Ill have to try that sometime–maybe tonight 🙂
I love making pesto, it’s really easy and so fresh! Just basil, parm, pine nuts, evoo, and garlic in the food processor 🙂
Moving! How exciting.
My favorite date night is just opening a bottle of wine, cutting up cheese, fruit, and bread and just relaxing.
yall are so adorable! i know youve said this-but how long have you two been together?! i LOVE PESTO! loving your pasta dishes!
If you like the pesto packet you should really try making your own fresh pesto. It is super easy and i’m sure much better tasting. Very simple ingredients…fresh basil leaves,pine nuts, garlic, grated parm cheese, evoo, salt, pepper all in the food processor.
oooh that sounds fantastic!
Thanks for the shout out! I am glad you like the pesto! They are all right about making your own pesto. Although I don’t do it that often, I have done it with my mom before, and it is pretty easy. You can also frezze portions of it.