Thursday, June 24, 2010

rigatoni a la garden greens


i'm having camera troubles. tonite i found the camera but the sd card was missing.... so i had no picture. after a little work i figured out how to get the picture off the camera.
when i arrived home from work i threw on shorts and went out to weed my gardens. when i got to the garden with all types of lettuce i picked A LOT. i washed it and gave a huge bag of it to my mother in law. i decided because i have so much greens i needed to come up with a creative way to use them in my dinner tonite.

i started with browning the hamburger i had thawed. i then put some water on to boil. i was hungry for pasta. once the meat was browned i drained it, salted it, added one can of diced stewed tomatoes, and then...i thought greens...what to do with these greens? so i took a bunch of fresh picked washed greens and placed them in a huge pile on top of my meat mixture. i tossed them with the cooking meat and tomatoes. it wilted down rather quickly. so i added another bunch of greens to the mixture. it also wilted down. it looked beautiful. red and green. these colors compliment each other. look pretty together. and taste great together. i boiled some rigatone and drained it. i added the pasta to the meat and tomato mixture, i drizzled olive oil all over it and threw in some grated mozarella. viola! dinners on....and they all thought it was quite tasty.
~bon appetite~

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