Tale of Two Pastas!

My kids like my cooking, but as a result have gotten kind of choosy about their separate preferences.  What I often do is cook up a pot of pasta and then have two sauce options available to toss with the noodles--sort of a made-to-order arrangement!

In this first photo, I whipped up a quick shrimp pasta sauce using butter, garlic, and white wine.  I sprinkled on parmesan when I served it to my son, who loves shrimp right now:

 






 




For the second pasta dish I fried up some cut-up pieces of sun-dried tomato & basil chicken sausage in olive olive, then tossed in a good half-jar of store bought basil marinara, and tossed in some linguini fini to serve along with the usual parmesan on top, which my daughter loves.  I had the same thing except I added red pepper flakes for heat! 

It was a quick weekday meal that satisfied each of us!