When Website Brain Meets Dinner Cravings: A Pasta Story
Recipe inspiration can hit you at the strangest times....
While sipping on my Moka Origins Uganda Dark Roast coffee1 and on an early morning zoom call with with my partner Mark about building our new website (our daily… okay
maybe hourly routine); I found my thoughts drifting and thinking about the pasta samples2 on my kitchen table. I was hungry (shocker) and thinking about what I was going to make my kids for dinner tonight. As I went to warm up my coffee and take a needed break from the day’s challenges., I rummaged in the fridge for a morning snack.
Homemade sausage from a friend, leftover spinach from the previous night’s salad and a couple of lemons stranded from a cocktail recipe… not exactly breakfast food but my night’s meal was started to come together in my head.
What I love most about this dish below is that you can substitute any type of loose sausage3 (chicken, turkey, beef or pork) and it still comes out delightful. Mark’s favorite way is made with chicken breast and mixed in a little dried basil, a touch of red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Hope you enjoy it as much as our families did!
Recipe - Trumpet Pasta w/ Creamy Sausage Ragu & Baby Spinach
-Danny Catullo, Co-Founder and Chief Foodie Finder
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1 This is one of our coffee selections for Foodie Box Love - Gourmet Coffee Subscription. It’s bold and reminds me of a raspberry chocolate bar dipped in coffee.
2The tough life of a serial food entrepreneur lol.
3Loose sausage meaning outside of the casing. My background as a butcher does come in handy every once and again.