Snowed In Dinner
With the weather still dicey, we canceled dinner reservations and stayed in. After a four person shopping extravaganza at Zupan’s I made Christmas Pasta, based on a recipe from Rachael Ray Magazine. My changes: I didn’t use any EVOO — who needs it when cooking pancetta and sausage in a non-stick pan? I used all spicy sausage, no mild, and skipped the veal. I didn’t think it needed that much meat and I was right. I also added a healthy pinch of red pepper flakes. This was very good – special without being too rich. (Though there’s no way was this is a 30 minute meal. An hour at least.)
With a nice salad, and a 2005 Montaribaldi Barbera d’Asti, we were all content to snowbound.
