Don’t you love the feeling when you walk into the kitchen with no idea of what you’re making, and lo and behold! A yummy spaghetti that you only figure out you were cooking after you completed cooking it.

This promiscuous spaghetti recipe was inspired by a bunch of fresh basil that was drooping pitifully in my refrigerator, about to go bad. I cut it up into tiny pieces and threw it in with the last few remaining items in the kitchen, spaghetti (grocery day coming up). And then, because its a promiscuous spaghetti and doesn’t abide by rules, it commanded a bunch of hodge-podge ingredients which traditional spaghetti wouldn’t perhaps mix together. Which was a handful of capers and sun-dried tomatoes and lots of chili flakes and lots of feta. Doesn’t that sound deeeelicious? My husband was a huge fan, and he’s a real-life spaghetti connoisseur!

I realized I enjoy cooking like this a lot, so I’m going to make this a…