A Spicy Tomato Pasta for All Seasons

Hi, lovely people. It’s Margaux filling in for Em. I’ve missed you!

My two kids went to sleep-away camp this summer, and while my partner and I did miss them quite a bit (sniff), one of the unexpected benefits of their absence was inhabit able to eat whatever we wanted.

There was zero planning of meals catered to their ever-fickle tastes and aversions: no tomatoes for that one, nothing tantalizing for that one, no seafood ever for both. (I know parenting experts say not to to cater to your kids’ culinary whims, but a peaceful dinner is more important to me than a nutritionally balanced one. I figure their palates will expand when they go to college?)

We ate all of the curious, vegetable-abundant, seafood-heavy meals possible over those two weeks, and it was downright glad. The recipes below are the kind we enjoyed, and they are all outrageously good, fast options for a weeknight, whether you are temporarily free from the demands of picky eaters or not.

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