Recipe corner: Old reliables.

[rivka]

curiousangel is learning how to cook some of our favorite quick, easy dinners, so that he can take over some of the cooking after Li'l Critter arrives. Saturday night he made pork chops and red potatoes. Tonight he made spaghetti with meat sauce, with only the occasional pointer from me.

Here's how I we make my our spaghetti:

1/2 pound linguini fini (Yes, I know that means it's not "spaghetti" at all. Hush.)
1/2 pound hot Italian turkey sausage
1/2 jar Classico Cabernet Marinara sauce
1 medium zucchini, diced
1 small red bell pepper, diced

Start water heating for pasta. Remove the sausage from its casings and brown it in a little olive oil over medium heat, breaking it up into small pieces. When the sausage is almost cooked through, add the vegetables and saute until the zucchini is golden. Pour in the sauce and turn the heat down to low. Drop the linguini into the boiling water, boil for six minutes, and drain. Top with sauce, which will be very thick.

curiousangel did a great job. Dinner was delicious. But tragically, the fact that he cooked meant that I had to do his job - the dishes. I guess no clever plan is foolproof.

Comments

Classico Cabernet

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

I just bought a jar of that to try. I've been buying the Newman's Own marinara, with which I am very pleased.

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Except... I was just thinking the other day, that given the height and position of our sink, if I were very, very pregnant, I would not be able to do the dishes very well without totally smashing the futurebaby. So, you know, if you can't reach far enough into the sink, you can get out of both chores.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Yum! That sounds really good.

[dragon3.livejournal.com]

And well within your skill set ;-) Nudge Nudge

Good for Michael taking on some of the cooking and still doing it in the approved fashion!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

And well within your skill set ;-)

Especially now that someone has written it out in a thorough and friendly way.

Nudge nudge backatcha ;-)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Obviously you'd want to use larger quantities. This makes generous portions for two.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Great! I didn't know you had an LJ!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

These days my cooking doesn't mean I get to skip the dishes. Too many things going on, and I am the one of the three of us who is home the most, so I', doing about a 1/3rd of them, as well as about that much clearing the dishwasher.

But I do get to do the cooking, which almost makes up for it.

TK

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I love the Classico sauces. We've been using them for a while -- a current favorite is to take fire roasted tomato and add 1/2 lb of shelled shrimp, and serve over tortellini.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds good.

We have shrimp pasta a lot, but I usually use an olive oil topping with lots of garlic and some sun-dried tomato slivers.