i might be the only one...

What's this?  We don't do posts around here on Fridays.  Friday is reserved for give the photo a caption or quote, but this hasn't been a "regular" week because of our giveaway (still a little time left to enter if you haven't) so I feel totally fine with continuing to break the rules. 

Usually, I'm taking you on a tour of a great restaurant or showing you something delicious I whipped up in my kitchen, like this tasty spinach risotto I made for dinner last week...

or the strawberry, goat cheese salad I paired it with (one of my fav's)...

 but not today.  No, today I'm going to share with you a new gluten-free pasta.  I prepared roasted stuffed tomatoes, which I tried to speed cook, to accompany.  My aversion to reading directions after having this fancy oven for two years, sometimes comes back to haunt me.  The tomatoes would have to be more of a "sauce" for the pasta because they, while tasty, were completely flat and stuck to the pan when I removed them from the oven (no photo but trust me). 

The pasta.  Well, let me paint you a picture.  I put the noodles (spaghetti strands) in the water to boil with the ends sticking out - doesn't everyone do this?  I'm standing at the back door with my arms open, greeting Andrew Henry as he gets home from work.  He sees me smiling with said outstretched arms, then sees me bolt away to put out the FIRE on the cooktop.  The gosh darn noodles had 5" flames coming from of them!  Guess the burner was up a tad too high.  Has anyone on planet EARTH ever caught noodles on FIRE?  I once caught my hair on fire while trying to light a barbeque, a story for another time.

We had leftover risotto with the flattened roasted tomatoes.  It was great, not what I had envisioned - but life usually works out that way.  It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.  Didn't Sheryl Crowe say that?  Hey, wisdom is everywhere.

Giveaway winners later today.