9.3.12

Sniffles and Spaghetti


It's that time of year again... the time when every single person on my college campus collectively gets sick. We call it the plague. I thought I had successfully avoided it, but the endless amounts of Vitamin C and tea can only fight it off for so long.

Instead of wallowing in sniffles and coughs, I'm trying to look on the bright side of being sick, for once. Now, I can catch up on some much-needed sleep, watch movies that I've had saved up in my Netflix forever, and finally finish that great book I started reading! Yay!

...But let's be real. Being sick actually mostly sucks.

I was going to make myself a big pot of soup today, but I realized I'm all out of vegetable broth. Instead, I might make another batch of this cajun white bean spaghetti that I had about a week ago for dinner. 
I got the delicious recipe here, from Noelle at the Peaceful Plate, except I made some minor changes. I used spinach instead of kale and had to mix up my own cajun seasoning using equal parts oregano, paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper and salt. 


All in all, it tasted super yummy and made great leftovers for a couple days! This will definitely be a weeknight staple around here. Maybe the spice will help to clear up the stuffiness in my head a little bit, too.



More yummy dessert recipes to come when I'm better! For now, time to doze off watching reruns of Mad Men.

11 comments:

  1. The plague has been going around my work. I managed to avoid it for two weeks, but the sneezing & runny nose ensued this morning. I will be couch bound after work all weekend.

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    1. Aaw, well that makes two of us! Feel better!

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  2. Aw, feel better soon! I'd love to think I'm escaping the usual pre-Spring sniffles epidemic, but I don't want to jinx it, so I'm making sure to keep up a super healthy diet. I like green smoothies not only because they're so healthy, but because it's my favourite comfort food, funny enough :)

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    1. Green smoothies are great! I need to start making some of those for myself. Thanks, and good luck avoiding the sniffles!

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  3. The pasta looks great. I like your salt shaker filled with the subtle colors of your spice mix. Feel better soon.....

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  4. ok, I love your blog! I'm italian and this pasta looks delicious (non italian people, 99,99% of non italian people, cooking a terrible pasta dish... sorry, but it's true!!!)! well done!

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    1. Thank you so much, Donatella! I will definitely take that as high praise :)

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  5. Oh I'm so sorry you're sick! You're right though about the sleep and netflicx. I could really go for a day or two of that.

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    1. It was definitely the perfect cure- all better now! :)

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  6. had some leftover pasta so i made this today. i didn't have beans but it was still amazing. i liked your recipe for cajun seasoning! YUM. thanks for sharing (:

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    1. Thanks, Korrin! So glad you liked it :)

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