17 May 2010

Whore's Pasta!

I didn't take any pictures of this culinary adventure, because, well, it just looks like pasta and red sauce. Also, it's so easy you don't need pictures. You can do it, I believe in you.

Pasta Puttanesca, or Whore's Pasta, is really just...red sauce with whatever you have lying around the house, plus some capers.

What I happened to have lying around was a jar of Trader Joe's tomato-basil marinara. Usually, I hate canned spaghetti sauce. It's just gross. I don't know why, but I bought this stuff anyway, hoping I could put my trust in TJ's good taste. Thankfully, I was mostly right...it was okay, but I decided I had better use it anyway, so I added shit to it.
Here is the shit I added to it:
Capers! Lots and lots of capers.
A few glugs of Charles Shaw's finest Cab Sav (thanks again, TJ's) - I am classy like that.
Carrots cut into little wheels (the only veggies I had in the kitch! Some green shit would work nice, too - be creative)
Vegan Sausages
Hella fresh herbs - yes, I am fancy. Oregano, Rosemary, and Fresh garlic.

Soooo, I just put all that crap in a sauce pan on medium and let it sorta cook down until it wasn't so wine-y and the frozen sausages had cooked and so had the carrots - probably about 20-25 minutes.
Meanwhile I was boiling pasta so that shit could all be ready at the same time.
Put sauce on pasta, impress friends.

OH yeah! I also made some super easy (vegan) garlic bread. Just took one of those take-and-bake $.99 baguettes from the gro, slice in half, and slather margarine on both sides.
Mince up some more garlic, but make sure you make it REALLY SMALL! And spread it on one side of the bread. Chop up some herbies if you like, I put more rosemary and oregano. Then, put the two halves of bread back together, wrap the loaf in tin foil, put it in the oven at around 400 for about 15 minutes, and viola! Home made garlic bread. You are fancy.