A Busy Weekend And A Lazy Monday. Recipe: Vegan Pasta Dish

Sunday was filled with a ridiculously amount of dish washing and trash pick up. Even Jerry was filthy and covered in grime. I spent a few hours at Eric's helping to clean up (being a clean up slave) and then left to work on my own apartment to-do list.

I tidied up my apartment and put the final coat of white paint on the baby's dresser. (I think I've said it before but incase I haven't... I bought earth friendly, no odor/fumes, no VOC paint to be cautious for babycakes). I only had the detail work left to do on the dresser, buttttttt when a visitor showed up at my door Jerry got excited, grabbed a tennis ball in his mouth, and ran across the dresser doors. So I have to sand down the doors and repaint them before adding any detail to the dresser. After the dresser I moved into babycake's room to paint her walls. I did 3 walls white (the same white as the dresser) and on the last wall I mixed the white in with the green from her highchair.. this green wall is where I'm planning on putting her crib. I also took down the blinds, took down the window screens, and washed the windows. It's slowly (but nicely) coming along :)

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Today (Monday) was such a lazy day. Jerry and I couldn't (or didn't) get out of bed until about 12:30. We caught up on design, food blogs, and Mad Men on the internet. My brain has been only half on the whole day. I snacked on a few meals and then made myself a bunch of green juice.... I later broke the glass. Good job. I only accomplished one thing out of the many things I wanted to get done today, which is cleaning the blinds. Whoever lived here before me did not know how to dust. Gross. I did also managed to make a pasta dish that I used to make years ago. It's so simple and delicious. I would make it weekly, I'm not sue why I stopped. I'm glad my abundance of greens inspired me to make it today :)

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Also, for your eating pleasure:

The most simple & delicious pasta dish.

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• Saute a few sliced cloves of garlic and some diced red onion in a generous amount of olive oil. 
• Sprinkle in some chili flake. 
• Once the onion is soft and translucent throw in two or so handfuls of sliced cherry or grape tomatoes and cook until they soften and oil becomes a delicious red. 
• Throw in a few handfuls of greens... whatever type you like. I would do this mostly with spinach before, but most greens work well. This was just a an organic spring mix or all sorts of greens I found at the market. 
• Add your herbs while the greens cook down. I added salt, pepper, dried oregano, and dried thyme. Fresh Herbs are just as delicious... if not more delicious. 
• I also added in jarred sun-dried tomatoes that I sliced. The dish doesn't need this, but it makes it extra delicious, I promise. 
• Give it a few stirs to blend together.
• I sprinkled some nutritional yeast on at the very end. The pasta doesn't need this, but it doesn't hurt. & obviously, parmesan would work just as well.
• Serve over the pasta of your choice and enjoy :)

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