welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen day three of our pantry
preparedness recipe series still don't have a name for it
probably doesn't need a name if you're watching this in the future this is
March 2020 the world is undergoing a global pandemic and a lot of people are
being asked to stay inside to selfi isolate to quarantine themselves to stay
away from public spaces we live in Canada and almost everything is closed
at this point places where people gather we've been told not to gather we've
actually Canada has closed their borders so and the grocery stores are empty
people panic but all kinds of food leaving those of us who didn't get to
the grocery store early enough with just what's in our pantry um there's no need
to panic buy please don't be panic buying the food supply is not in
question there will always be enough so today I'm going to make a really simple
pasta that uses sausage meat and a can of beans now luckily Julie and I always
seem to have sausages in the freezer it's a quick emergency meal
at you know regular times and thankfully we had some of this we also had can of
beans I don't have the pasta that I would
normally use I'm down to a little bit of Ora Kathy and something called
scooby-doo it's almost like a macaroni so I'm just gonna use up what I have
I've also got some cherry tomatoes I'm going to throw those in a little bit of
wine and some cheese so a very simple recipe so I've got a frying pan here I'm
gonna hit it with a little bit of oil and it's on medium-high heat once that's
up to temperature I'm gonna put in the sausage meat so I've removed the casings
put the sausage in you fry it off and you break it up as you go
now most of the flavor for this sauce is gonna come from the sausage so if you
know what the sausage tastes like you can sort of adjust the rest of your
spicing to match what's going on or to enhance what's going on these are fairly
spicy so I'm gonna add just a little bit of red pepper flake not too much because
I don't want to overpower the dish and I think a little bit of dried rosemary
would go really well on this of course if you have fresh use fresh but if
you're using what's in your pantry or your cupboard you're just gonna put in
the dry stuff now this is pretty much cooked down so I'm gonna put in the
kidney bean so I'm using kidney beans but you could use any bean again that
you have in your cupboard and we just want to put that in and stir it around a
little bit now the beans are gonna break down as you're cooking it so if you mash
them a little bit that's fine because they're gonna really add a nice
creaminess to the sauce next in are some cherry tomatoes these aren't great
looking cherry tomatoes we made this a couple of weeks ago and I had some
cherry tomatoes left in the fridge so I'm just gonna throw them in you don't
have to add them if you don't have them but if you have a little can of tomatoes
or some tomatoes leftover it just adds a little bit of extra to the sauce and
then I'm gonna put in wine this is white wine so I'm not as concerned about the
flavor of the wine I really just want the acidity okay so scrape up the Fond
on the bottom of the pan because it's gonna be great
now you just want to you just want to drive off some of the wine burn it off
release the other flavors if you don't have wine you don't want to use wine for
whatever reason you could use chicken stock you could use vegetable stock you
could just use water and then throw in a couple tablespoons of another acid so a
really nice vinegar a flavorful vinegar or a little bit of lemon juice if you
have lemon juice that acidity will brighten up all of the other flavors and
that's what you want okay so this is looking good I'm just gonna let that
bubble away time for the pasta in our cupboard today we just had
pasta so I've got to test some or a catty and some scooby-doo
so in here I've got boiling salted water in goes the pasta okay now I'll just let
that bubble away okay sauce is looking nice now I need to grate some hard
cheese we always seem to have some hard Italian cheese in the fridge doesn't
really matter which one you use and I just want to grade it really fine and
we're going to put that into the sauce along with the pasta and a little bit of
water and emulsify it now this is the point where if it was available to you
you'd put in a leafy green either spinach or kale or Swiss chard not
available to me today so I'm not going to do that but I will put some peas in
before the end now the pasta is pretty much cooked so we're gonna put that in
as I drip water all over okay now I just want to mix this all together and get
everything coated now the plan is to use some of the pasta water and the cheese
to finish up the sauce okay so a little bit of cheese and a little bit of pasta
water and this is where you have to cook I can't tell you how much pasta water
you have to sort of read the sauce listen to it and figure out how much
more you need to put in just stir it in and once the that amount of cheese is in
put in the next amount and if you need more water put in a little more water
okay a little more cheese and we'll stir that in I'm thinking I need a little bit
more water so scoop in a little bit more water
okay just about done
throw in some frozen peas and we're finished you put in broccoli you put in
pretty much any green that you want anything that you want really
so I'll just stir this in and we are done excellent my friends so sausage and
bean pasta with mixed pasta in peace I know exactly what to pair with ittle bit
of wine I kind of tensed on that one but I'll go back oh I need spoon spoons or
spoons or Forks spoons just boots the indecision so you
know like every recipe we come to the end and we say make it your own so I
mean the sausage to flavor the sausage like I said earlier drives this pasta
yeah I can see how that would happen right so if you've got a good flavorful
sausage it's gonna be great and if you don't have a good flavorful sausage if
it's a you know mediocre sausage you can layer in spices and herbs I mean the
beans break down to make it creamy yes and then the cheese melts in with the
pasta water and you get I think this is a great pasta and then whatever shape
noodle you want to use I mean I used what I had because there's nothing else
would make it your own I mean you don't don't feel you have to follow a recipe
god this is a guideline it's original right you know white beans I'm sure that
there's a couple different other you know maybe beans white kidney beans
there's a whole bunch of stuff you could put use in and said and if you only have
two sausages up the amount of bean I mean it's still
gonna taste really good you could probably do it without sausage and just
go straight beans mmm two cans of beans
leave the sausages out completely throw in some different spicing to replicate
what would be in the sausage and you've got a great pasta that is at that point
vegan or vegetarian and you know else vegetarian vegetarian cheese oh geez
so it would be vegetarian sorry sorry vegans but it would be excellent thanks
for stopping by stay safe hope to see you again soon
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