TGIF! TGIF! TGIF!
If you watched my vlog earlier this week, you know how excited I was about the samples of Al Dente Pasta I received. I love pasta, but unfortunately it doesn't have the greatest rep among the many other wholesome carbohydrates. (Buckwheat, quinoa, millet, barley, wheat berries: I'm looking at you!)
For me, pasta is a treat that I love to have on occasion (I'm talking about the original white processed goodness that is just so comforting). Most of the time, my family makes whole wheat pasta, and as good as it is, it just isn't the same... It's kind of "heavy"-tasting, if you ask me.
But it looks like Al Dente Pasta is about to change all that... Call it Al Dente Revolution? Methinks so!
I decided to begin my Al Dente culinary adventure with the Whole Wheat Plus Flax Linguine.
1+1/2 cup serving size?! 5g of fiber?! 8g of protein?! YUP!
Short for time because of school, and with a growling stomach, I grabbed the package of Applegate Farms Organic Chicken and Apple Sausage that I spotted in ShopRite last weekend.
A quick fix turned into a delicious, healthy meal...
{Whole Wheat Linguine with Chicken and Apple Sausage in Garlicky Tomato Sauce}
I began by sautéing 1/2 yellow onion in olive oil with a dash of salt. I then added 3 chopped cloves of garlic and sauteed a little more. Finally, I sliced up 4 sausage links, and also added about 2 tbsp ketchup + about 1/4 cup V8 juice.
[I've never had Applegate Farms sausage before, but was so happy to discover it. It's all natural and organic! The Chicken + Apple combo was a savory treat!]
Served over a bed of linguine...
...and
...it took just one bite to realize that I will never go back to the plain-white-pasta-eating-days.
Now, I've had fresh pasta made from scratch before, so I know what the real stuff tastes like... (And by real I mean fresh pasta made at home by an Italian mom) So please believe me when I say, this pasta tastes so real, so fresh, so wholesome, and SO GOOD.
[Do you see the little specks of whole wheat in the linguine? That's how you know it's real!]
Yes, I'm talking about whole wheat pasta - the stuff that I thought is supposed to taste un-pasta-like. And no, not an exaggeration. My taste buds now understand the meaning of high quality gourmet pasta, and (for better or for worse) they now have seriously high expectations... Good thing I still have more Al Dente pasta left for future culinary experiments! ;)
Wish it didn't take me this long to realize that pasta can be both wholesome and delicious, and that my pasta-lover-appetite didn't have to be suppressed all these years... But surely better later than never!
Al Dente Pasta - welcome to my life! :)
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