Food Shenanigans From Afar: Pasta with Turkey, Tomatoes, and Half and Half

Hello!

I am currently listening to a "Philosophy Bytes" podcast on consequentialism for my class tomorrow. It's interesting (at least to nerds like me), but because I'm just sitting at my laptop listening, I decided the best use of my time would be to create a new blog post. I can probably justify this with my very limited understanding of consequentialism: making blog posts makes me happy and I am not harming anyone else. Boom. Multi-tasking justified. (I hope no philosophers read this...)

So I found this recipe on All Recipes, and it is originally called Bow Ties with Sausage, Tomatoes and Cream. While I like Italian sausage, it just seems a bit unhealthy to me. So I used ground turkey instead and added some salt, pepper, chilli pepper flakes, and Italian herbs. And cream; well my mom never fed me cream presumably because of its lack of nutritional value, and I find it kind of heavy, and admittedly I don't really know what cream tastes like... So I substituted this with half and half, based on a user's recommendation to make the dish "lighter." I also added a green pepper based on another person's recommendation. Oh, and I didn't have bow tie pasta so I used whole wheat penne.

Otherwise, I pretty much followed the instructions exactly. It was pretty easy and didn't take too long. Not bad for a weekday dinner! And now I have leftovers that will last me the rest of the week. Hooray!

Here's a super close up picture of the final product: