Spaghetti flirtations

After having superb spaghetti with meatball sauce and caramel custard at a friend's place last week, I was so inspired to make this colourful dish that I promptly went and got the ingredients the very next day.

Food for me is definitely about the taste, flavour, texture etc but it's also about the riot of colours, the slowly changing colours of cooking pasta or of slowly cooking chicken. Once I got the spaghetti, all I had to do was start experimenting. First up of course was the spaghetti and meatballs sauce (recipe here). After a recent debacle with this version of pasta, I was exercising extra caution to make sure it turned was cooked al dente. 

Taking heart from the successful spaghetti meatball sauce, I decided to get a litte adventurous and clubbed the starch with spinach and mushrooms.

And then made my version of the famous spaghetti aglio olio.

All in all, the husband and I had an interesting array of snacks with drinks last night, in keeping with our decision to enjoy every evening for the next week or so!

Rating on spaghetti versions -

Husband's rating: 4.5/5
My rating: A modest 4.8/5!

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