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Five Pasta Dishes to Make for Valentine’s Day

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Five delicious easy pasta recipes that are perfect for cooking on Valentine’s Day! Date night in, even for one, is the 2020 vibe I can’t get enough of.

Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day this week? Weekend? Ever? Never?

We technically celebrate our dating anniversary on V-day, but after 9 years together we….I have no idea…anymore. Mainly because I travel a lot this time of year and last year we had a newborn and, while I’m cool with a dating anniversary and a wedding anniversary as an excuse to hang out, it’s definitely nothing mandatory for us anymore.

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Bacon Cheddar Skillet Pizza with Caramelized Onions

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You know that when you make pizza in a cast iron skillet it’s done in 10 minutes, right? 

Bacon Cheddar Pizza from funnyloveblog.com

That means you can be EATING PIZZA in ten minutes. 

Beck’s favorite food HANDS DOWN is pizza. When we are talking restaurants is always what she “suggests” (shouts for), what she’ll gobble up the fastest, and what she’ll do almost anything for, behavior-wise. Yes, we bribe with food. I’m cool with it.

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Creamy Mushroom Parmesan Pasta

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Dinner! 

Honestly can it just always be pasta? Last week Jay was out of town and I had some leftover noodles from another dinner, then I made this easy creamy mushroom pasta, AND we had some leftover pizza. So save for some wilting lettuce that I ate for the earth and this pasta, I didn’t cook at all and ate carb-heavy nearly every meal. It was the best, and this week we’ve eaten lots of extra veggies already, so lay off me. 

This pasta, for sure, is SO worth it. We’re talking huge flavor with just a few ingredients, thickened milk or half and half instead of heavy cream, and vegetarian with a healthy hit of parmesan for flavor and protein.

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Easiest Eggplant Parm

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Oh, early week dinners. They can sometimes feel sad. Maybe we’re trying to do better by our bodies after a weekend, maybe we’re hurried with work and activities and life, maybe we’re just out of inspiration and tired.

Easiest ever eggplant parm to the rescue! Marinara + cheese is a pretty universally loved combination, and I make versions of this all the time: throw random veggies in with marinara and cheese, top with something crunchy, bake until tender, done.

This version with eggplant ends up almost creamy when the eggplant softens because we slice it with a mandoline. If you don’t have one just slice the eggplant as thinly as you can – or buy a new kitchen tool, you’ll use it a ton once you have one!

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Buttery Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Spinach

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Obviously healthy enough for what we’re trying to do this January.

One thing I’ve been trying really hard to do since having Will is find a balance between 1. complicated meals that I love to make but take forever and trash the kitchen and 2. takeout. I know that seems dumb, but I’m never the one to look for “super quick and easy weeknight meals!” I don’t mind eating at 9pm, I love cooking, and it mostly works for me.

Until, of course, it doesn’t. Will has been taking a longer stretch of sleep (like…two hours, don’t get too excited) in the late evenings, so if we eat at nine and go to bed around 11pm I’m missing a lot of that good sleep. Then homeboy wakes up sometimes every hour at night, I’m exhausted and forgetful and irritable and honestly the fun crazy dinners are mostly not worth that.

So the quest is to find quick dinners that are actually GOOD, and this is definitely that. It’s sweet potato gnocchi that boils in four minutes, during which time we saute some spinach with so.much.garlic. aka my favorite way to eat spinach. Then the gnocchi gets a brown butter + sage bath because we’ve earned it, and dinner is ready in FIFTEEN MINUTES, tastes like something from a fancy restaurant. You need this in your life, trust me.

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