dmaze ([personal profile] dmaze) wrote2003-11-09 05:38 pm

Easy bachelor food

Making pasta is pretty boring for a meal. But you can impress your significant other (you know, that person who sleeps over sometimes) by adding something to the sauce...

Spaghetti with sausage
1 package hot Italian sausage
pasta sauce
spaghetti
vegetables to taste (I like green peppers and onions)

If you have sufficient cooking foo and are adding vegetables, sautee the vegetables and set them aside. Start the pasta, about a single serving's worth. Cut the sausage into slices 1/4" thick. (This can be a little messy; you can cook the whole sausage a bit to make it a little more intact when you cut it up, but it's a little hard to tell if it's cooked all the way through.) Cook the sausage in a frying pan over medium heat until browned. Drain the grease from the sausage. Add the vegetables, if any, and a single person's serving's worth of pasta, and warm over low heat. Meanwhile, if you've timed things right, the spaghetti should be done. Drain the pasta, and top with the sausage-vegetable-sauce mix. Serves two, or makes two meals for one.