You Can Never Have Enough Pasta~ Sunday afternoon or Sunday Night

I work weekends away from my home. I sometimes say "I have a weekend place in Massachusetts" . While it's bigger and slightly better equipped than my house (ie it has a washer and dryer), there is no place like home for cooking. I do cook there on the weekends with the occasion order in for pizza or take out Chinese, but I still love a good Sunday lunch

I do however, have about an hour and half drive home on Sundays. I try lock up and be on the road no later than 5:35 PM, sometimes I stop for a bottle of wine at the local packy, sometimes I don't. My goal is to be home, with all the dogs, laundry, food, etc unloaded no later than 7:30 PM with a pot of water set to boil for something for dinner...

I grew up eating macaroni on Sundays for Sunday Lunch it's what Italian Americans did. They went to church and then had macaroni and gravy for your mid day meal. The two greatest Sunday afternoon meals are the Italian American macaroni and gravy and the English Roast Meal.  Both I love.   Since it would take too long to do a Roast Meal when I get home on Sundays, I stick to a pasta dish.  The leftovers are usually my Monday lunch.

This past week, I made a dish that I saw on Pioneer Woman cooks blog.... It a chicken Florentine pasta, you can see her dish and the directions here.  I made this on Sunday when I came home and as I did not have any chicken, I just added extra spinach. I had the cherry tomatoes in the house and I had the end of a wedge of really good locatelli romano cheese that I shaved into slivers for the pasta. You could use grated cheese if that is all you had in the house... It was soo good I made it again on Monday. I was out of wine, so I just doubled the chicken stock. It was still tasty. I also used a little chopped onion as I was trying to use up things from the fridge. Yummmm