For much of my upbringing, I was raised in an Italian household (I’m part Italian and part Polish basically). Our Italian household had pasta night every Sunday. I remember the dinners fondly, as well as the midnight snacking on cold pasta straight from the fridge and dipping it in the cold sauce.
These days, sadly, pasta is not my favorite thing to serve because it’s not exactly the most nutritious option in my pantry. But(!), we gotta have fun sometimes and who doesn’t love pasta?
So, this is how we do pasta at our house on pasta night – loaded with veggies.
And, grass-fed butter.
That’s a pasta dish I can actually feel pretty darn good about serving my family.
Here’s what I do…