SUN - DRIED TOMATO & SPINACH SPAGHETTI

Yesterday just before I went to Boston, I stopped by to a local farm market to buy sun dried tomato, spinach, and bell pepper. I was planning to make pasta with those ingredients the next day.There was Italian food in my mind. Apparently my pastor and family treated us Italian Food at a restaurant near their house for celebrating the head of the family's birthday. It was a nice experience enjoying different kind of pasta. Yummmy....

Today I tried to mix those healthy ingredients..Hope they will turn out good...though will not taste as good as Italian restaurant where I went yesterday ^_^.

1 box whole wheat thin spaghetti

1/2 onion julienned

2 tbs minced garlic

1 orange bell pepper julienned

Baby spinach 10 oz

sun dried tomato about 0.3 lb, cut lenghtwise into 2 or 3 pcs

basil -- prefer fresh, but I don't have it, i ended up using dried basil.

garlic powder

salt

pepper

shredded cheese

canola oil --- I plan to use olive oil, but got no chance to buy it :-(

Direction :

- cook the pasta according to the package until al dente (be firm to eat), drain the water

- while the pasta is still hot, toss with some oil, garlic powder and basil powder, salt

- Heat some oil , saute onion and garlic until become soft, throw the bell pepper, sun-dried tomato, spinach. Stir fry them about 2 minutes.

- put the spaghetti into the saute mixture

- serve while still hot

- sprinkle with shredded cheese

By the way, everybody loved it....included my husband.

Veggie can be tasty and good while we give enough seasoning.

And no one noticed it was 100 %whole wheat pasta.