Tarragon Infused Cream Sauce Pasta

It sort of seems like pasta is the only thing I make... it's not I swear. I do however make it quite often. It's just so good! If someone told me I could never eat pasta again I'd probably shrivel up and die. Tonight for dinner I made up the recipe, as my sister and I quite often do for pasta dishes.

The ingredients are: spicy sausage (which was bbq'd and then put in), mushrooms, onions, red peppers, garlic, white wine, chicken stock, cream, tarragon (fresh and dried), thyme (dried), nutmeg, hot pepper flakes, s & p and spinach. One of the pictures show asparagus because I had cut it up with the intention of putting it in, but completely forgot.

The key with cream sauces is patience... thankfully my sister was here for that. Quite often when I'm at school I make myself pasta and then get to excited and eat it before the sauce has had time to thicken up... tonights sauce had a perfect consistency!

Pasta Al Forno with 5 Cheese

Got an e-mail from my sister today about dinner... "Is it too hot for baked pasta? Probably, but I don't care". And after reading the recipe she sent me, I agreed with her.

So we don't really like following recipes that much, we only use them as directions to delicioustown (why isn't delicioustown a word? It should be).

We used all the cheese they recommended ($30 later...), we used crushed tomato Passata instead of chopped tomatoes, threw in some lemon zest per someone else's suggestion, added spinach to add some green (and to pretend we're healthy), squirt of dijon, nutmeg, cayenne, s and p and then topped with sliced tomatoes, dollops of goat cheese and Panko bread crumbs. Oh, and we put garlic in... duh. It suggested to top with butter, we went with an olive oil drizzle.

It is SO delicious... We want to take it to the next level next time and put some sort of meat in... perhaps sausage!