Pasta de Sausage

Another cooking night! Mel and I made a new friend yesterday, her name is Tracy and she got in about 3 days ago to Newcastle from China.  She is a business student studying at the University for one year in a masters program.  W took her to the beach yesterday and had a lot of fun trying to teach her to swim, building a huge sand turtle, going to the mall, and then having dinner.  I decided to make a sausage penne pasta for dinner and had a lot of fun seeing what I could invent up!

My ingredients for the night

(salt, olive oil, sun dried tomatoes, tomato pasate, balsamic vinegar)

(garlic, onions, sausage, mushroom)

Penne pasta & sauteed onions, garlic, and sausage

Penne de Sausage!

Penne de Sausage

- 3 or more sliced garlic cloves

- 1 onion diced

- mushrooms sliced

- 3 sausages cooked and sliced

- 1 package of penne pasta cooked
- sun-dried tomatoes

- tomato paste

- olive oil

- balsamic vinegar

- italian seasoning

1. Slice and dice all your vegetables up and set to the side. In the meantime, bring pot of water to boil and toss penne in to cook.
   
2. Fry up sausage and slice.  To sausage oil, add more olive oil and fry up onions and garlic.  Add a dash or two of balsamic vinegar to the pan and reduce out.  Once onion has cooked to a translucent consistency, add in the mushrooms and the sausage.  
3. Add tomato paste and sun-dried tomatoes to dish once everything has been combined.  At this point the pasta can now be added into the pan.  Add some of the pasta water directly into with the pasta also that the dish will have a sauce base and add more olive oil and Italian seasoning to taste.
   

Voila! Penne de Sausage!! Enjoy!