G-dog cooks pasta

No, my cooking didn't poison anyone so no jokes about it ok? I mean, I'm not the greatest cook around and, as I was saying today in a comment thread to Hive account@dswigle, my cooking tends towards the basic but it's not toxic - I think.

My food tastes lean towards the simple. It's not that I don't like fancy expensive food, I do, it's just that I feel more comfortable with a more homey version. It's the company that makes food better in my opinion as there's nothing quite like breaking bread with valued friends and family around. So, when I cook I keep it basic.

Anyway, I was telling Denise that I was going to cook a pasta at some point, using spinach I grew myself, and decided that tonight would be as good a night to do so than any. Here's how it turned out. It might not look so great team, but it was tasty!

I kept things simple and the ingredients to a minimum and basically what you see in the finished product below is a brown onion, red capsicum (red pepper) and mushrooms sautéed in chilli-infused olive oil for a little zing. When that was about half cooked I added the browned off chicken boobs and finished off the cooking process. While this was happening I had the spaghetti boiling away in the water and when almost cooked I returned my attention to the topping to finish it.

This is when I threw in my home-grown spinach and wilted it down without the burner on, just in the heat of the chicken. Oh, I threw in peas also, just frozen ones I'd boiled a little in water. By then the spaghetti was al dente, cooked a state that would give a little bite when eaten; I drained and returned it to the pot and added a sun dried tomato and garlic stir-through pesto thing. (From a jar y'all, I didn't make it.)

Once that was stirred through I simply the chicken mix and put some in the bowl you see pictured above. I served it with garlic sour dough bread and topped it with fresh parmesan cheese. Sorry, the garlic bread wasn't ready when I took the photo so...No garlic bread photo; you'll have to take my word for it being good!

The taste was pretty good overall and, if I'm completely honest I'll tell you I had two bowls of pasta, but I'm going to lie and say I only had one serve. I've got a little left over for lunch tomorrow though so that's cool, I get to revisit its tastiness all over again.

I'm not sure if I did it right and someone probably really wants to pick on me but it worked ok and tasted good so I'm not sure what else is required. I'm pretty happy with the meal and maybe I'll cook it again sometime. What was super cool though was to include ingredients I'd grown. It's pretty satisfying.

So that's it y'all...Tell below in the comments what you've eaten today or are planning for dinner!