A Pasta Recipe for Meh Mondays

Hello! Mia here, filling in for Melissa Clark today. How are you? I’m … tired. Maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s just Monday, but I’m slow and sluggish, the human equivalent of that womp-womp trombone noise. I need a dinner that knows how bleh I am but also knows I’m hungry and want something substantial and nourishing. I need pasta nada.Pasta nada, as Dwight Garner writes for The New York Times, is pantry pasta stripped to its barest of essentials. His puttanesca pasta nada is the classic dish made with just a few of the usual suspects, a combination selected for maximum oomph…