Simple Pasta Dos (hearty and vegan)

So I've been on this pasta kick and tonight chose another pasta from Real Simple's website. This was a red marinara with capers, Spanish olives, artichokes and lemon zest. Easy because it requires that you just have jars of these ingredients in your cabinets and fridge. 

It was delicious and easy. It was thick and good. A wintery dish indeed. A great meal for the vegetarian, heck vegan if you do not cheese it!

Hearty Simple Pasta 

serves 4-5

1 box of linguine 

1 jar of marinara sauce (you can go homemade if you are feeling aggressive)

2 cloves garlic chopped up

1 tbs crushed red pepper 

2 tbs olive oil

1 jar of 3.5 oz capers 

1/2 of the jar of 6 oz Spanish olives (so 3 oz!)

1/2 of the 6 oz jar of artichokes (" ")

1/2 a lemon's zest

palm sized amount of fresh thyme (original called for parsley, thyme is all I had)

Salt and pepper to taste

Boil, drain, strain you linguine. Set aside and put some oil on it so it does not stick. Saute garlic and red pepper in oil then add the sauce. Follow with the capers, olives, artichokes, zest, salt and pepper, thyme. Let simmer for a good 15 min. Sauce your linguine and serve;)