Alfredo sauce with meatballs
So last night I started another class to prepare for the GMAT. This one is twice a week, 3 hours each night. While I understood it would be rushed, I forgot about one important thing: food! For my first class on Tuesday, I didn't realize how little time I would have between getting home from work, exercising with Zoey, eating dinner, and driving to class. So it turned into me running out the door with a poorly thrown together sandwich and no water to go sit in a "let me overload your brain with information until you just stare straight ahead and look like a zombie" 3 hour class. So tonight, I decided to prepare myself for tomorrow night.
My books are already sitting on my dining table, ready to drop in the bag as I'm heading out the door. I also made pasta with meatballs, since some sort of food energy is bound to help while I'm trying to cram in a ridiculous amount of information. Tonight I was in a "I want food now" mode, so I made the easiest and quickest recipe I could: Rotini pasta with beef meatballs in Alfredo sauce. It sounds a little weird, it wasn't until a year ago that a friend convinced me that meatballs could be eaten with other kinds of pasta and sauce, but I've come to actually really like it (especially the quickness of it). So here's my extremely easy recipe for a filling meal that'll make enough for the next 5 days.
Ingredients:
- Favorite kind of pasta
- Favorite type of meatballs
- Favorite sauce
Directions:
- Boil the pasta
- Use 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil to fry the meatballs
- Combine 1 jar of sauce with the pasta and meatballs.
- Enjoy!
I usually eat 3 meatballs and a cup of pasta so I know that making a whole box will get me enough for a week. I freeze 2 containers of just the cooked pasta and eat the rest, making more meatballs if necessary. Typically I'd also add in some veggies, like slices of bell peppers, some boiled spinach, broccoli, etc. But tonight, I had to accept the most time I could wait was enough to just grab a few olives out of the jar and add some grated Parmesan cheese on top. It was a great, quick dinner that allowed me to enjoy another guilty pleasure, the ESPYS.
GO SEAHAWKS!