A Gift

It is official.  I have two readers.  I know who you are and I want to thank you for reading my blog.  I would like to gift you a recipe, an idea for dinner.  I always appreciate dinner ideas.  This one is from my pastor's wife.  

Jackie Rigatoni

It really is delicious and a cinch to cook up especially if you have three hungry little kids running around.  I am surrounded with friends with three kids (including my pastor's wife).  


1 pound of rigatoni pasta
1 package of Trader Joes Sweet Italian Sausage
2 packages of Trader Joes broccolini
1 handfull of sun dried tomatoes in olive oil (Trader Joes sells this as well)
5 or 6 cloves of garlic sliced up


1.  Boil pasta in salted water.
2.  Saute sausage and set aside.  
3.  Saute sliced up garlic in olive oil.  Add broccoli and sundried tomatoes.  Chop up the tomatoes and cut up the broccolini first though.  I also like to peel the broccoli stalk.  
4.  Add sausage back into broccolini mixture.
5.  Add pasta.  As soon as the pasta gets near al dente, I scoop up the pasta from the boiling pot with my trusty spider and dump it into the pan.  No need to rinse.  Plus, some of the pasta water ends up into the sausage/broccolini mixture which adds some liquid to the dish.
6.  Mix and season with salt as needed.  


It's yummy to let the pasta sit in the pan a bit - you get a nice brown crust on some of the pasta pieces. Enjoy!