Penne with Chicken and a Feta Sauce

I couldn't decide what to make for dinner last night. I had sweet potatoes and wanted to do something with them, but I really wanted pasta for some reasoning (what else is new...). Early in the day I saw a recipe for a feta cheese sauce over chicken on Pinterest. I was intrigued, but in seemed like a weird recipe to me. I was telling my sister about this and she tried to find the recipe but ended up finding a different one. I liked this recipe better because I didn't have to do go the grocery store. The recipe I used was served on flank steak, which I unfortunately did not have, so I stuck with chicken. 

Back to me wanting pasta... I decided to turn the feta sauce into a pasta sauce. I followed the instructions, but after only 1/4 of a cup of feta it wasn't cheesy enough for me. I probably added, in total, 3/4 of a cup of feta. After finally tasting it and with invisioning how the rest of the dinner would come together, I tossed in a few pinches of thyme for more flavour.

While making the sauce, I fried up some mushrooms, onions and garlic. When the sauce was done I added the fried mushrooms/onions/garlic to it. In that pan, I then fried up some bite size chicken pieces. I didn't marinate the chicken at all, just put some salt and pepper and a little garlic in the pan with some olive oil. When the chicken was done I tossed in some spinach and let it wilt. When this was all done also added it to the sauce. Should I make this again, I'd add way more spinach. I was nearing the end of my container so just through what I had left in, but I really like what it added.

I mixed it with some penne and added a sprinkle of feta on top. This was definitely something that should be filed under 'delicious but totally not healthy'. It reminded me of homemade macaroni and cheese. It basically was, just with feta instead of cheddar or some other type of cheese. Tossing this in a casserole dish and putting some bread crumbs and feta on top and tossing it under the broiler for a bit would probably have been delicious, but I always find that not entirely necessary. It just takes longer and I'm pretty impatient.