Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Living Room Furniture Theme and a Pasta Dish

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date! I did a modern sofa for the 'Living Room Furniture theme'.

 For the Dinner Date, I made this pasta with Italian sausage and spinach dish based on this recipe.  I made some substitutions and here is my recipe.  I am learning that reducing alcohol in my pasta sauces results in a very tasty residual flavour. 

The other thing I am doing is making the pasta on the side so that my diabetic husband can add however much he can handle in the dish.  That works for me too.

3 cups of penne pasta

4 tbs olive oil divided

3-4 Hot Italian sausages removed from casings

1/2c white wine

5 oz bag of spinach

1/2c grated parmesan

pepper to taste

1 onion chopped

Cook pasta in salted boiling water.  Save a cup of pasta water after cooking.  Drain the pasta and mix in 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil.  Set aside.

Saute onion in 2-3 tbs olive oil.  Add crumbled sausage and cook it for about 10 minutes.

Deglaze with white wine.  Reduce to half.  Add a cup of pasta water and reduce to half again.  Stir in spinach and parmesan cheese for a few minutes until the spinach is wilted.

Serve with pasta on the side.