Whole Wheat Pasta with White Beans and Spinach

A Quick Vegetarian Pasta Dinner

All in all, this recipe should take the amount of time it takes to cook the pasta.  A speedy, delicious, nutritious no-brainer.

Whole Wheat Pasta with White Beans and Spinach

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Pasta

White beans (canned or homemade, if you have the time)

Spaghetti sauce (prepared or homemade - we're not snobs here)

Fresh Spinach (preferably baby)

Yummy yummy goat cheese

Olive oil to taste (extra virgin - because, evidently, you can never have too many virgins)

[To save time, cook the pasta and sauce at the same time]

Pasta:

cook the pasta until al dente - in salted water w/a little olive oil to keep it from sticking

drain and set aside

Sauce:

Heat spaghetti sauce and white beans together in a pot

Assemble:

Pour the spaghettie sauce bean mixture over the pasta

top with spinach leaves and toss it all together

garnish w/yummy yummy goat cheese and a drizzle of EV olive oil

enjoy. 

Hurdles

A dear friend of mine with a gift for language told me he feels like he's in a "hurdle forest" right now.  I think anyone going through a lot of changes can see where he's coming from.  Overcoming this, navigating that.  He's traversing all these obstacles to make his life better, deeper, more meaningful in the long run, but in the short term, it's challenge after challenge.

I wrote back to him that sometimes obstacles are there to show us how much we want something.  Every difficulty we work through confirms our desire.  Strengthens it.  

Now, I'm also thinking that hurdles serve to help us loosen up a little bit.  They remind us that our dreams may not manifest in exactly the way that we envisioned them.  That we have to be flexible along the path, and understand that these hurdles might even be our gateways to awesomeness.

Yeah, I said it.

"GATEWAYS TO AWESOMENESS"

Personal growth.  Deeper understanding.  The whole nine.

Have a great Sunday.

Ssssh!

Ssssh!

Quiet as it's kept, I took a little run today.  Down to the Parkside Q stop and back through the park.  Just to see how the old pistons were movin'.  Felt so sluggish at first.  Legs lagging, but better in the breath.  By the end, I was starting to really pump, and felt my lungs start to open up and work.  So glad to feel alive like that.

No timer.  No distance.  Just feet.

This is a secret just now.  No promises on whether I'll start training for the M word again.  Just thought I'd share...