Spiral Noodle Ala Vodka

"Yesterday, I bought a jar of vodka pasta sauce.  I haven't had this in awhile so I thought it would be a nice change from the standard marinara sauce.  In a lot of restaurants vodka sauce is used for a dish called Penne alla Vodka which uses penne pasta and is topped with the sauce.  I did not have penne pasta on hand, but I did have organic spiral veggie noodles, so I used them instead! Of course I wanted to have more flavor and texture in my pasta so I added sliced ham (which I needed to use up) chopped onion, peppers, garlic, chopped zucchini and mozzarella cheese. Wowser! Did it taste good! The vodka sauce was a great change of pace with it's creamier texture and less of the tomato acid taste."

Wiki Says:

Vodka sauce is an Italian sauce made from a relatively smooth tomato sauce, plus cream, vodka, and typical Italian herbs. It gained popularity in the 1970s, when a variation won a national recipe contest in Italy.^{[citation needed]} It is a key ingredient in penne alla vodka, although it may well have been a sauce before its "invention" in the 1970s.
The vodka's function is, ostensibly, to release flavors in the tomato that are normally inaccessible; using alcoholic beverages for this purpose is common in Italian cooking, although this is usually accomplished with wine.^{[1]- Wiki.}