Weeknight Pasta

I love pasta! I love to make it, and I especially love to eat it 🙂

My favorite pasta dishes usually take hours and a lot of love to make to perfection, but this weeknight pasta dish is quick, easy, and has a little bit of something for everyone! The beauty is you can totally make it your way with ingredients that your family enjoys. Here’s what I did, but feel free to add your own favorites, remove stuff you don’t care for and make it your own! I would love to hear what you did to make this recipe an original at your house. Also, I think this needs a name….any suggestions?

Ingredients:
1 Rotisserie Chicken (meat removed from bone and chopped or shredded)
1 can black olives (I use the medium size olives cut in 1/2)
1 jar marinated artichoke hearts (chop to roughly same size as tomatoes and olives)
1 container of fresh cherry tomatoes (cut in 1/2)
1 small box frozen chopped spinach (thawed and drained)
2 gloves fresh garlic (minced)
fresh basil, salt, and pepper (season to taste)
1 pkg of dry spaghetti (cooked and drained)
1 cup of fresh mozzarella (shredded or cubed whichever you prefer)

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Directions:
Combine all of the ingredients except the pasta into large mixing bowl
Cook pasta according to package directions
Toss all ingredients together
Serve, and enjoy with garlic bread

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*I told you it was easy*