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"  This week I made three recipes from various Weight-Watchers sources, with varying degrees of success. There was the strangely tan potato soup (from the evaporated milk?) and the meatball pitas, which were pretty good. Last night we had creamy spaghetti with spinach and tomatoes. It was kind of bland and gloppy, but we devoured it, talking the whole time about what we could do to make it better next time. More salt? A little black pepper, or maybe some red pepper flakes in the oil at the beginning? My favorite was my dad&amp;#039;s suggestion for chopped kalamata olives, which prompted my mom to complain, &amp;quot;Wait a minute! You have to follow the recipe and measure everything; if you add other ingredients then you have to add more points.&amp;quot; Oops. We kind of threw out the whole measuring thing when we boiled the pasta. My dad added the first \u00BD pound of Barilla Plus spaghetti to the boiling water, then he got worried that he&amp;#039;d go hungry, so he added another fistful. Then another. (To be fair, we were feeding 5 with a recipe for 4.) Everything else I measured: 2 minced garlic cloves and 3 diced plum tomatoes in 2 teaspoons olive oil until the onions were soft. What was left of a bag of frozen baby spinach, cooked with the tomatoes until thawed. Then in goes the pasta along with \u00BC cup cooking water, 1 cup low-fat ricotta and 1 cup shredded fat-free mozzarella. I actually think we could&amp;#039;ve cut back on the cheese quite a bit, maybe even omitted the mozzarella completely or added something more flavorful, like a 4-cheese Italian blend. I was shocked that my son scarfed it down so fast I&amp;#039;m sure he even ate some of the tomatoes and spinach.  Here are some variations on the creamy pasta sauce, along with a recipe for lasagna rolls that I&amp;#039;ve made before and found kind of fun:  Creamy Pasta Primavera Fettuccine with Cherry Tomatoes Lasagna Rolls Have you ever started with a mediocre recipe that you&amp;#039;ve altered until it was really great? Care to share your results? \u2014 Kim Walker "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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