Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Quick and Easy Trader Joe's weeknight meal

This involves:
1 box steamer clams (pre cooked, from TJ's $5, can heat in microwave)
1 box spaghetti noodles (cook al dente)
some fresh basil, diced garlic tossed into hot olive oil
toss the heated clams with the noodles in the oil mix

voila! dinner served.
so easy. for a creamy sauce you can add some half-half (or all cream but it's too rich for me, plus i always have half and half around for coffee but never the full cream)

Amy's short cut kitchen secret-I use what I already stock on hand for substitutes all the time! half and half is perfect cuz it's good for any white cream sauce, bechamel, to creamify the chicken pot filling, to make your omelette more creamy. it's not just for your coffee!
This is also the only way I can use it up fast enough.
I use to buy the fake creamer stuff but that's so full or artificial preservatives. Even though cream has calories, it comes from a cow!

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