
Always a crowd pleaser!


🥳 I love this delicious pasta!
Ingredients for two servings – 6 to 8 oz. whole grain penne, 1/2 onion, chopped, 3 garlic cloves, minced, 4 oz. spicy pork sausage removed from casing.
Steps – heat boiling salted water and cook penne according to box directions. While water is heating and penne is cooking sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. When onion is translucent add the pork sausage. Break sausage apart while cooking. Cook until the sausage is no longer pink.
Reserve a cup of pasta water and then strain the pasta with a colander. Add a couple of handfuls of chopped kale to the sausage mixture and also a half cup of the reserved pasta water. Put the penne into the sausage mixture and stir it around. Add the rest of the reserved water if it looks dry.
Garnish with olive oil and Parmesan.
I seem to be running behind so here is another “two fer,”

Delicious shrimp tacos with avocado, salsa, mango, and spicy beans. 2/4/26
Chicken dinner. 2/5/26

Our classic chicken dinner is always a family favorite.

😊 Delicious chili made with Muir Glen chili starter.
2/3/26 Pizza
Did not feel like cooking and ordered pizza delivery instead.


The jury is still out on this frozen entree. It came in a two pack from Costco so we will at least have another chance to evaluate it. We used the microwave method which was 10 minutes at full power and 10 minutes on half power leaving the plastic film attached during both cookings. Sauce was good but the eggplant was covered with mushy bread crumbs. We will cook the other eggplant Parmesan in a conventional oven before rendering judgement.