Having your own vegetable patch in your garden is quite remarkably satisfying and rewarding. (Even if you do get over loaded with veg!) For a simple, tasty supper, I made this enjoyable pasta dish. I cooked some herby, pork sausages in the oven until perfectly golden and sizzling. Meanwhile I boiled this delightful pasta, called 'Conchiglioni', it is curled and rounded, so that it can scoop up all of the lovely pasta sauce! YUM, well done. Once my pasta was almost cooked I plonked in my purple sprouting broccoli from our very own garden. (Don't be scared if the water seems like it's turning purple, it'll change!) I don't like to cook this for too long, it's nice with just a little bite and crunch to it. (Equally you could steam it.) I then in a separate pan made a delicious creamy tomato sauce, using passata, soft cream cheese, and Parmesan. I then sliced up my sausages, and combined all the ingredients together once cooked. Lastly I gave the whole thing a few scattered shavings of Parmesan and a crack of black pepper. Done!
Firstly... let me just apologise! I'm terribly sorry that I haven't posted for a long while. You see... I had been away in Germany, sampling the cuisine of Deutschland and so on. However, that is for another post! This, was my quick and easy, creamy, mushroom, fusilli pasta, with wholegrain mustard and rosemary! (The reason I added the rosemary was because recently I've discovered I like the taste of mushrooms and good old rose'm together: just don't use too much!) The creamy part of this dish is Philadelphia cheese! YUM.
This was so, so, so easy to make. It was really good too! I made the tomato sauce a couple days before and kept it in a jar in the fridge! It tastes better once it's had time to mature and marinade. :) The sauce started off as some garlic cooked in olive oil, then I added some chopped tomato passata to the garlic, let it bubble away for awhile on the hob, I then added some salt and pepper to season, and some fresh basil leaves. That was all I did for the sauce, and the flavour you get from the garlic and basil is so good! I then cooked some pasta, drained it, poured my sauce over the top, put it back on the heat to warm through, and then finished it off with some more fresh basil leaves and some flakes of cheese. Was delicious!
