A Study in Contrasts

I've mentioned before that my husband and I rarely eat the same dinners. He's a "hamburgers on Monday and Thursday, Chicken on Tuesday, Fish on Friday" kind of guy.

I'm more like whatever inspiration hits.

Rarely do our tastes intercept.

For example, I made this absolutely delicious fish salad dinner last week. He had hamburger. Again.

Or the salmon pie I had while he had chicken pot pie. Note: I used to love chicken pot pie, but I can't eat chicken.

The one dish we do share a taste for is baked rigatoni. I'm not a huge fan of Baked Ziti, but change those baby zitis for big, hunky rigatonis, and I'm right there.

I don't know why except that you can really sink your teeth into rigatoni - especially when cooked al dente.

I also sauteed some spinach with garlic.

I used a simple Barilla sauce, some ground beef, rigatoni, and lots of cheese. It turned out to be sooooo delicious. And I had some leftover for lunch!



















If the salad interests you, I used my Sweeties (remember last year when I discovered them?), some pomegranate arils.

Since there were some questions about how rigatoni compare to ziti, here are comparative photos.