Super simple and quick pasta dish for nights when you don't want to do heavy cooking.

Ingredients

• 14 oz ripe cherry tomatoes, halved
• 2 cloves of garlic, chrushed
• a small handful of torn basil leaves
• 1/2 cup of olive oil
• 14 oz penne
• salt and black pepper

Instructions:

• Put tomatoes, basil, and garlic in a large bowl.
• Pour over the olive oil.
• Season with salt and pepper, then cover bowl and leave for 1 & 1/2 hours to infuse.
• Bring a big saucepan of water to a rolling boil. Add a pinch of salt.
• Pour pasta into the boiling water.
• Boil pasta to desired firmness.
• Drain pasta, then add to the bowl of infused mixture. Toss well and then stir.
• Serve and enjoy!

A veggie filled twist on Mac n Cheese!

In this recipe, I'm giving you a variety of cheeses you can use. In the instructions I will use the bolded and capitalized first letter of the cheese to make it easier to follow.

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 medium to large leek, trimmed and thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup of all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups lowfat milk
• 10 oz broccoli
• 12 oz penne
• 2 handfulls of spinach leaves
• 5 oz of Swiss Cheese, Fontina, Jarlsberg, Gouda, OR Cheddar.
• 3 heaping tablespoons of grated parmesean
• salt, black pepper and grated nutmeg

Instructions:

• Put butter in a medium nonstick saucepan on low or medium low heat
• Add leeks and cook for 1 minute while stirring, then stir in the flour and cook for a few seconds.
• Take the pan off the head and stir in the milk gradually.
• Put the panback on the heat and bring the milk to a simmer. Turn the heat down and leave the pan over very low heat.
• Add water and salt to a large saucepan. Bring water to a boil and add broccoli to boiling water for a couple of minutes.
• Transfer broccoli to ice bath to blanch
• Put pasta into boiling water (same water) to cook
• Just before the pasta is ready, stir in your cheese of choice (SC, F, J, G, or, C) and parmesean into the sauce.
• Add salt, pepper, and nutmeg into the sauce after adding the cheese
• Add broccoli and spinach to the sauce, then stir the sauce. Set it aside for 3-4 minutes
• Preheat broiler.
• Drain pasta, then pour into ovenproof dish that's been lightly buttered.
• Pour the sauce and veggie mix over the pasta gently.
• Place ovenproof dish on baking sheet and broil for 5 minutes until cheese is brown and bubbling
• Take dish out of the oven and let cool for a couple of minutes
• Serve and enjoy!!!