Andouille sausage and whole wheat pasta

Posted on | August 30, 2008 | | Printer Friendly

After shopping at the farmer’s market on Thursday, I stopped at the Glebe Meat Market to pick up lamb for a Jamie Oliver recipe. We’ve decided to try and stop buying our meat from the grocery store and throw our support (and a few extra dollars) towards smaller (and local) producers. It seemed a bit of a waste of my time to have gone all.the.way. to the Glebe at 37 weeks pregnant only to buy one small bag of meat. So, I thought I’d pick up a few extras and then figure out what to do with it once I got home.

The sausage counter caught my eye - so I picked up two links of Andouille (I had no idea what it was or what it would taste like, but it looked interesting) and two links of Chorizo.

I flipped on the computer at home and started typing in ingredients that I had in the fridge. Tappa tappa tappa. I realized the Andouille was definitely more of a soup sausage, but I didn’t feel like making soup. It’s August! Finally, I found an easy pasta recipe that also required carrots - I had lots of carrots left over from the Jamie Oliver carrot recipe from the night before and they were already prepared. Awesome.

I just wish I had bothered to take a photo because the whole meal was really delicious. And the fresh tarragon? YUM. I love tarragon.

Boyfriendly rating: 5/5 Boys don’t argue when it comes to sausage for dinner.

Category: Pasta

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