It’s really nice having a day off with Job. It means that we can get some things done around the house together and that we can go grocery shopping and plan our meals for the week.
Yesterday we went into the city center for a trip to the Apple Store for a power cord extension, and then since the rain had let up a bit, we went to Dam Square and made our way to the Albert Heijn to get some groceries.
We decided that for dinner, we would have some pasta with pesto and some chicken. We already had chicken at home and only needed to get some pasta which was on sale and some pesto.
We bought a few other things for the week and made our way home for lunch.
We cleaned a little more, ate some lunch, and went to watch the olympic opening ceremonies which were pretty amazing. After a little bit it was nearing to dinner…
We realized that we had not taken the chicken breasts out of the freezer to thaw. We went through all of our options:
1. Pasta with just the pesto sauce
2. We had some leftover meat sauce in the freezer, we could try to thaw that…
3. We had some plain red sauce…so that and pasta…
….We weren’t really excited about any of these options. Then we remembered..we had some sausages in the fridge that we needed to eat soon!
So we cooked up the pasta, and Job went to work
Sausage Pasta Sauce
Ingredients:
2 Sausages, cut into small circle slices
1 Onion, chopped
1 Garlic clove, chopped
2 Tomatoes, diced
1 Cup tomato sauce
1 Small spoonful of Sambal Oelek for heat
Olive Oil
We cooked up some Bow Tie pasta in a pot and then started our sauce.
For the sauce, we started with some olive oil and onions cooking on a medium high heat. We added our sausage to the chopped onions.
We cooked these until the sausages and onions started to brown
and then added garlic and tomatoes.
From here, we cooked this for about thirty seconds and then added tomato sauce and sambal.
We just kept this on a medium high heat until all of the ingredients heated up enough and then the sauce was ready. Took maybe 5-10 minutes to prep and complete the sauce.
I added a little bit of parmesan cheese and it was perfect to eat.
The sauce had just the right amount of heat and was very fresh tasting. The pasta was perfectly cooked and everything melded together really nicely.
Being that this was definitely a last minute dinner, I would say I can’t wait to eat it again because it was so tasty!
The Traveling Spoons 