Showing posts with label Sauces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sauces. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Baked Italian Sausage Pasta


Now the picture doesn't do this justice. First, I made my somewhat known pasta sauce. It starts with onions and garlic sauteing in olive oil. Then I add about a cup of white wine to add richness to the dish. After the wine reduces add tomatoes to the mix to finish the sauce. I barbecued some Italian sausage until they were almost done. I threw them into the sauce to finish cooking in the sauce. This makes the sauce get the juices and flavors from the sausage and lets the sausage pick up the flavors of the sauce. Add not fully cooked pasta (about a minute underdone) to your sauce in a large pan. Add cheese over top and bake for about 20 minutes. When it comes out, it is so good and rewarding for all the work put into it. I must say it's one of my favorite dishes to make for myself and others. If i were to recommend anyone to make any of my dishes, this would be the one!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Cheese testing


Today I had lots of extra time in my day, so I decided to try out cheese recipes for a competition I want to enter. So I made three pasta dishes and two chicken dishes that all Incorporated cheese. First I made a spinach artichoke pasta which tasted just like the dip. Then I made a spinach Alfredo sauce to go with more pasta. I also created a mac n' cheese sauce to go over more pasta. After I created all of these I topped them with the cheeses which are in the sauces and baked them for about thirty minutes. I then took six chicken breasts and cut them in half vertically,making twelve total. Then i cut them in half horizontally so that I could stuff them. In six of the chickens i stuffed with mozzarella and tomatoes. It was to die for! Then we had six other chickens that I stuffed with a Mexican cheese blend(which is a lot like monetary jack cheese)and also wrapped them in bacon. I cooked these for also thirty minutes until perfectly cooked:).