**Winner. Cheapest Meal of the Week**
Don't Ask, Don't Tell ended today. This doesn't affect my life at all except that it's not illegal to discriminate in yet another place in this country. That has to be a good thing.
I took the bus home tonight. It takes 1 hour and 15 min. Somehow I got home early. I was supposed to get off the bus at 6:05 but instead got off at 5:48. Beats previous bus rides where I didn't get home until 6:30.
I made Capellini Pomodora tonight. I was planning my menu for the week when I happened to get this recipe emailed to me from Whole Foods. I've always liked their recipes and they are always one of my go to sources for recipe ideas. it was a great way to use up tomatoes and basil. I doubled the sauce recipe because we like a lot of sauce. I left out the chick peas because that just seemed weird though I appreciate that they were trying to make a complete meal. We've had a bag of frozen vegetarian beef tips for months so I used that instead. I left out the garlic because we don't have any. I replaced the asiago cheese with parmesan to make it cheaper and simpler. I served it over bow-tie pasta because we had some in our pantry.
Doris was really excited about the bow tie pasta. She first told me that she was a boy because she was going to eat boy toy pasta. But then she saw the pasta and said it looked like butterflies, so we called it butterfly pasta from then on. She only really ate the butterflies and left the sauce.
It was a tasty meal. I really liked it. I never have thought to include balsamic vinegar in my pasta sauce but it was really good. I'll definitely be making this again.
pasta: $1
CSA veggies: $2
vegetarian beef tips: $4
parmesan cheese: 50 cents
balsamic vinegar: 20 cents
Total: $7.70 ($2.50 per person)
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