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Day 81 of 365 – Kale, Sausage and Pasta

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Bowtie Pasta with Spicy Sausage and Kale

inspired by Everyday Italian by Giada de Laurentis

Ingredients:

  • 1 bunch of kale, stalks trimmed and torn into bite size pieces
  • 12 ounces mini bow tie pasta
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 pound spicy Italian sausage, casings removed
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Bring a large pot of water to boil.  Add the kale and cook until crisp-tender, about 1 minute.  Strain the kale, reserving all the cooking liquid.  Set the kale aside.  Cook the pasta in the same pot of boiling water until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes.  Drain, reserving 1 cup of the cooking liquid.

Meanwhile, in a large, heavy skillet, heat the oil over a medium flame.  Add the sausage and cook, breaking up with a spoon, until the sausage is brown and juices form, about 8 minutes.  Add the garlic and red pepper flakes, and saute until fragrant, about 30 seconds.  Add the kale and toss to coat.  Add the pasta and enough reserved cooking liquid, 1/4 cup at a time, to moisten.  Stir in the Parmesan cheese, salt to taste, and pepper into the pasta mixture.  Transfer to pasta bowls and serve.

Day 78 of 365 – Olive Oil Tasting

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SWIRL

 

Begin by pouring a tablespoon of olive oil into a small glass. Cup the bottom of the glass in your hand to warm the oil; cover the top with your other hand and swirl gently to release the aromas.

SMELL

Bring the glass to your nose and smell the oil. Take a note of the aromas.

SLURP

Next, take a slurp. As you do so, touch your tongue to the back of your top teeth and inhale. This spreads the oil in your mouth and helps release the flavors of the olive oil.

 

SWALLOW

Finally, swallow the oil and take note of the flavors you experience.

Day 71 of 365 – Breakfast of Champions

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To me, this is the breakfast of champions a Wawa 20oz Coffee and any bagel Sizzli.  I usually have a turkey sausage, egg white & cheese Sizli but when I was there the other day they only had the pork roll, egg & cheese left.

Since moving to the Southern Tier, I have been missing Wawa so much.

If only they would open a store here in Corning!!!!!

Day 67 of 365 – A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

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‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Day 64 of 365 – CLOUDS

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cloud
kloud/

noun
plural noun: clouds
  1. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
    “the sun had disappeared behind a cloud”
  2.  a state or cause of gloom, suspicion, trouble, or worry.
    “the only cloud to appear on the horizon was Leopold’s unexpected illness”
verb
3rd person present: clouds
  1. (of the sky) become overcast with clouds.
    “the blue skies clouded over abruptly”

    synonyms:  become cloudy, cloud over, become overcast, lower, blacken, darken

    “the sky clouded”
  2. make or become less clear or transparent.
    “blood pumped out, clouding the water”

    synonyms: make cloudy, make murky, dirty, darken, blacken

    “the sand is churned up, clouding the water”