For a simpler week of cooking, we're exploring pasta and sauces this week. We're sampling a variety of sauces and pastas in preparation for making our own.

Our first choice was Newman's Own Vodka Sauce, purchased for the Kenyon connection, among other reasons. Wow! Yeah, it looks orange, but the cream and cheese really add to the flavor. We'll need to try and make this one ourselves and mix it with some meatballs.

We have a few more, from Classico and Bove's of Vermont, that we'll update later in the week.

And, lest we forget, some pasta trivia!