My name is Sarah Gonzales and I like to cook and bake. This blog is all about cooking. This first recipe is a pasta dish that I saw on “Everyday Italian“. Since I saw this, I’ve added a few things to the recipe and taken some things away. This is my take on the recipe, and my favorite dish. Try it at home and tell me what you think.

Ingredients:

Ditalini pasta, about a pound

4 roma tomatoes or two regular tomatoes, diced

3 cloves of garlic, minced

Half of a white onion, chopped

1 block of mozzarella, cheese

1 bundle of spinach

3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

Directions:

Take out a big pan and start boiling water for the pasta.

In a large saucepan, put the olive oil and the chopped onions. Cook on medium heat. Add the garlic and let the garlic and onions cook together for a couple of minutes. Dice the tomatoes while garlic and onion cook down.

Put the pasta in the boiling water when ready and cook for 8 minutes.

Add the tomatoes to the garlic and onion mixture and also add salt and pepper to taste. While cooking the tomatoes, cut half of the block of mozzarella into cubes and save the other half for later. Add the mozzarella after you cut it and stir it really well to get all of that cheesy goodness.

When the pasta is done use a ladle and drain the water while you put the pasta in the sauce. You only need to put in ¾ and then strain the rest in a colander. A little pasta water is okay in the sauce.

Then once all of the pasta is in the sauce cut the other half of the mozzarella into cubes and put it into the whole dish. Take a handful of spinach leaves from the bundle, make sure that there are no stems, tear them up, and put them into the dish and stir. You can add more leaves on top of the dish or not.

Again you can leave comments about what you think. That’s what’s cookin’.