Once a week pasta

Yes, that's right. We are both part Italian and love us some pasta! We probably really do have at least one meal of pasta per week. The great news for us is that there are really yummy pasta alternative options out there. We have our go to pasta from Trader Joe's which is brown rice and comes in 3 shapes, spaghetti, penne and rigatoni. There are also several other options that we found at Whole Foods, including a delicious quinoa pasta (part corn as well) and a whole corn pasta. We use these on occasion but mostly use our cheap and easy to find TJ rice pasta. The only major difference in the rice pasta is the texture is a little more gummy, but we don't really mind and we love the taste. I am pretty sure I will have lots more pasta dishes that are similar but slightly different to post on here. I hardly ever follow a recipe and when I do, I tend to modify it to fit our dietary needs. I have 3 main pasta type dishes we make very commonly.

First: Ground turkey meat sauce.
Second: Mixed veggie marinara sauce.
Third: Seafood, roasted tomato sauce.

As an example I will just post what I made for dinner yesterday (it fits into category 3)

Spicy roast tomato and clam sauce rigatoni

1 package of brown rice pasta (any shape works but mine were spirals)
A bunch of fresh tomatoes from my garden (all different sizes)
Half an onion
Half a bell pepper
3 cloves of garlic
2 small cans of chopped clam in clam juice
Fresh parsley
Salt and pepper
Red pepper flakes
Tabasco sauce

Broil tomatoes until they split their skins and darken. Cut up onion and pepper and saute until tender. Add crushed garlic and the cans of clams. Add tomatoes, crushing the tomatoes with the back of a wooden spoon. Spice it up to taste (we like ours a bit spicy after all the yummy thai food we have been enjoying lately). Finally, add the chopped up parsley for color and a fresh taste.