Pasta is often the weeknight dinner hero. Take the show on the road with this chicken pesto pasta recipe by Thriving Home. Dubbed “Green Alien Pasta” by mom Rachel, the homemade pesto is the star of the dish. Combined with rotini pasta and chicken, the meal can be chilled in single servings and easily toted to and from errands and activities.
Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.