Penne Arrabiatta

It is 4:17 in the morning and I am wide awake.

Maybe it's because I woke up around 1 PM; I don't know. (Actually, that sounds pretty plausible). But maybe it's because I go back to school in less than 2 weeks and I'll need to wake up at 7:30 in the morning for my job and I want to milk the last of my summer days. (Thankfully that only lasts a week; my morning classes this semester are at noon and 10:30 on alternating days).

Maybe it's both. Who knows.

I do know that I have random cravings for food when I'm up late...like tonight, I got back from my friend Alexa's around 12:30 and was craving arrabiatta sauce. I would've made it too, but we didn't have all the ingredients. I settled for disappointment instead.

But! I don't have to settle for that tomorrow. Because in a few hours, grocery stores will be opening and I can get the ingredients so I can have a nice bowl of pasta sauce soon after I wake up.

Penne Arrabiatta was my staple in Lebanon whenever we went to Italian restaurants. With extra sauce, please. I love regular pasta sauce, but when you add a spicy kick to it...man, that's the stuff. I was able to get by for the first few weeks when I got back because my mother had made an overabundant supply of my grandpa's pasta sauce and meatballs for my brother's grad party (which I missed). It's absolutely delicious and carries years of memories with it, but I started craving the spiciness of arrabiatta.

So, I searched for a recipe and found one. A great one. I didn't change anything from it, and won't, because it's perfect, so here's the recipe, from Una Mamma Italiana.

Few things are better than a bowl of pasta with homemade sauce....one of these things is a bowl of homemade pasta with homemade sauce.

Song of the Day-- Efter Livet by Tingvall Trio.
Recovery Link of the Day-- an ED tumblr in the style of #whatshouldwecallme. Accurately funny.

5:09ingly,
Carina