After I had Indy, I put up a post called "Post-Baby Pasta" in which I talked about how you can totally cook in the weeks after having a baby, so long as you're a little…open-minded about the whole thing.

And I stand by that: sometimes, throwing together a meal is just as easy (or at least almost as easy) as ordering in - you just have to be kind of un-fussy about what you make, be imaginative about using whatever you already have on hand (because let's get real: you are not "just going to run out to the store for a couple of things"), and make sure the whole deal takes no more than about ten minutes start-to-finish.

Let's call this "Post-Baby Pasta Number Two." I made it because it was 6PM and all of us were hungry, it was too late to start the takeout-ordering process, and when I looked in my refrigerator I found asparagus and goat cheese. In our cupboard, I found pasta, and pasta always makes our son happy, so there you go. It would have been better with a heartier pasta like rotini or fusilli, but what I had was spaghetti, so there you go.