Pasta is for Saturdays

A few weeks ago I ripped several pasta recipes out of a magazine simply because they used fresh ingredients and looked really good.

A few days after that, we were faced once again with the Saturday evening dinner question. It had gotten late, we had to get ready for church the next morning, the kids were hungry from swimming, and we needed to eat FAST.

I remembered having impulsively picked up two yummy cheeses from the grocery early in the week, there were garden-fresh yellow tomatoes on the counter, lemon basil in the herb pot on the porch, and the recipe was hanging on the range hood. Dinner was decided.

I followed the recipe mostly as written, except I used diced yellow tomatoes and tossed in a small yellow squash for the sauce part, subbed linguine for the pasta, and tried goat cheese instead of ricotta. I also seasoned and cooked some chicken tenders in the skillet before making the sauce, chopped the chicken and added it into the mix.

It was SOOO GOOD.

The pictures don't do it justice, but the entire family ate it(which is saying something).
Definitely fits the bill of  "will make again", and it really was only about as much prep as the recipe says(odd for M.S. recipes! lol), including the extras I added.

This was before the sauce was tossed with the pasta and chicken.

What's your Saturday Supper Solution? Do you have a standby old-faithful, or is Saturday your day to branch out and "big cook"?