Creamy Mushroom Rotini

Regular spaghetti gets old. plain-old pasta and red sauce. Boringgggg. Here is a recipe that spices any kind of pasta up and is fancy, inexpensive and delicious!

What you'll need:
Pasta boiling pot
Sautee pan/skillet
Small pot (quart sized)
2 Wooden Spoons

Ingredients
3/4 box of rotini pasta (you can use any kind but this is what I recommend!)
1 package of baby portabello mushrooms
3 cups of spinach
1 jar of mushroom alfredo sauce
3 TBS olive oil
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/4 cup white cooking wine or white wine if you are of age to buy it!
1/2 onion, cut into thin, long pieces
2 palm-fulls of italian seasoning

**This will make four servings. Enough for three friends or leftovers for lunch!

How to:
1. Pour contents of alfredo sauce in to small quart-sized pot and set to LOW heat on your stove.
2. In your skillet/sautee pan, put 3 TBS olive oil, garlic and onion in. Move these around with a wooden spoon until the onion becomes limp and translucent.
3. Fill your pasta pot up in between pushing the onions/garlic around and set that to HIGH on the stove and wait for it to boil.
4. Back to the skillet. Your onions should be translucent/clear now. Add the package of mushrooms to the pan and push them around with the wooden spoon until they shrink and become limp.
5. Water boiling yet? If so, add 3/4 of the box of pasta of your choice to the water.
6. Cook the pasta.
7. The mushrooms should be a bit smaller and limper now. Here's where you can add some white wine to the mushrooms. I recommend white cooking wine or your favorite white wine. Add your spinach and push the spinach around with the wooden spoon too. The spinach will begin to shrink (good!) the warmer it gets.
8. Pasta finished cooking? Fish a piece out with a spoon (NOT YOUR HAND) and taste it. If it's chewy enough, drain the pasta.
9. Put the pasta on the plate, followed by two scoops of alfredo sauce and finally a healthy helping of mushroom-spinach deliciousness.

ENJOY!

Crazy Quesadillas

Crazy Quesadillas is an extremely simple recipe inspired by my sophomore roommate Meghan and my current roommate Sam. I NEVER thought of making quesadillas myself until Meghan showed me how simple it was and I'm afraid I didn't explain it too well to Sam the other night which ended up in her telling me the story of the quesadilla travesty. All stories aside, this a delicious, easy recipe that you can cater to exactly what you like!

What You'll Need
Skillet
Spatula Flipper

Ingredients
1 tortilla (you can do more but I'll write the recipe for one)
1 generous handful of shredded cheese
1/4 diced up tomato
As long as it is a handful, you can add almost anything in to this--meat, spinach, mushrooms, onions etc.

How-to
1. Put skillet on the stove and set the stove to medium heat.
2. Put tortilla in skillet. Sprinkle cheese over the tortilla.
3. Wait two-three minutes or until the cheese begins to melt. Once this happens, begin to add any diced up/handful ingredients you'd like to HALF of the tortilla, so it looks like a half moon.
4. Give this another minute or until the cheese is completely melted.
5. Use your flipper to fold the tortilla in half. Carefully take the now folded tortilla and completely flip that over. (This will melt the cheese to the ingredients you added)
6. Turn off the stove, grab a plate and have yourself some quesadilla!

***You don't have to add anything to the quesadilla besides cheese. It's yummy either way!