If You're Short On Time, Lazy + Need A Quick Dinner Recipe

We all have days like this. Some of us, more than others.

I had food in some places in my home and my husband was in Ft. Lauderdale picking up my daughter at the airport (Jealous. She was in Austin, Texas for 5 days), my son had his sweet friend, Amy over and my stomach was grumbling.

I needed to cook and I had no food plans, not a meal plan in sight and people to feed. This is what I came up with. This is a quick step by step no nonsense, so easy recipe that might take you 10-15 minutes to make.

• Make pasta. Drain. Set it aside.
• In a frying pan or saute pan, heat 1/4 cup olive oil and 4 FAT cloves of minced fresh garlic. Saute.
• Once nice and bubbly, add one cup of frozen shelled edamame and 1/8 cup water.
• Let simmer, uncovered for 3 minutes.
• Get CAN of (oh yeah I'm not joking) Progresso white clam sauce.
• Add to garlicky soupy edamame saute and bring to a simmer.
• Reduce a bit
• Combine pasta and sauce together back in large crock pot until all is sizzling nicely (fried spagetts!)

Sadly when everyone came home, Brad wanted his left over chili, Nina wanted a cheese and jalapeno injected hot dog (puke!) and Desmond wanted the pasta with cheddar melted on top. I was the only one who enjoyed the lazy meal.

Some lazy meal. I prepared 4 of 'em!

Canned food to the rescue! This doesn't happen often in my house, so you can see
how happy I was when it worked out for me =)

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