Quick and easy creamy goat cheese spaghetti. It’s a simple 20-minute dish for busy weeknights.

Creamy Goat Cheese Spaghetti

There’s always a few days a week when the idea of cooking is as appealing as sticking a fork in my eye. You know the days – work is busy and stressful, the puppy won’t stop barking, somebody in the neighborhood keeps switching out trash cans and somehow you end up with the grossest one (seriously, WHY?), and the weather has you curled up on the couch with a take-out menu in one hand and the remote in the other. Hello, take-out crab rangoons and Top Chef! Why cook when you can watch someone else do it on TV?

While I may not always practice what I preach I have come around to the idea that the bad days are the days we should cook. Everything in the world can be out of control, but we can take control in the kitchen and, in not that much time, make dinner. We can make dinner! And, more specifically, we can make a comforting 20-minute dinner otherwise known as creamy goat cheese spaghetti.

So, the next time the chips are down, consider this recipe before ordering take-out:

Boil some spaghetti and while it’s cooking heat some butter in a pan and toss some garlic in. Add the cream and whisk until it makes a sauce with the butter. Add so green, in this case, fresh spinach, and some creamy goat cheese. Toss the pasta in the sauce, plate it up (or not – it’s just as good straight from the pan), pour some wine, grab the remote, your coziest blanket and… ahhhhhhh.

Take that, bad day.

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one serving of creamy goat cheese spaghetti in a white bowl with a fork

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