Eeny, Meeny, Tortellini...
This is a simple and quick dinner preparation. It probably seems a little spare, but you can dress it up to suit nyourself. While I love futzing with meals, I like this particular meal in its Spartan aspect. We found the last step a few weeks ago when I discovered some Portobello mushrooms about to go south and decided to incorporated them into the mix :).
You’ll need:
Tortellini - whatever your favorite brand and style is. We use Barilla, which is a dried product, and all the flavors are good - especially the three cheese and the porcini mushroom :) The asparagus and ricotta is pretty nifty too!
Italian sausage - we like the sweet but I imagine the hot would be pretty good too. I get the links only because the bulk sausage (in my market, anyway) is 20¢ more per pound. At cooking time, I peel off the casing and break the meat into bite-sized lumps.
Portobello Mushrooms - 2 or 3 nice caps cut into chunks.
Heat a skillet and then add about a tablespoon of olive oil and a tablespoon of butter. Get this to the sizzle point and dump in the mushrooms (you could also add chopped onions and peppers at this point if you wanted them). Stir them around for a few minutes until they begin to brown, then add the sausage. Turn the heat down a bit if you haven’t already done so. Cook, stirring around occasionally until there’s no more pink in the meat. Set aside.
Sausage and mushrooms
Little, teeny lifesavers :)
A marriage made in heaven!
Mmmmmmmmmmmm :)
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aha, emeril strikes again! sounds quite good- everyone here enjoys the ‘robbyn’s pancakes’ i make from your recipe, so i guess we will add ‘robbyn’s tortelini’ to our menu- i like the ‘naked pasta’ term- should generate some interesting hits!
i have always bought tortellini in the ready-to-use form and haven’t used the dry kind before- and mushrooms, well, they are just good and better- of course if i don’t soon clean this house i will probably soon find mushrooms growing in corners and closets-
still wet here- and maybe getting cooler today- hooray for a change of seasons finally!
stay happy-
I am a blogger junkie. I go to Yarnpath, read, salivate, cook/prepare, gorge. You are my dealer. You have lured me in. And bless you for that.
Barb - Yay for your cooler weather! As for Emeril - ROFL - I should have his talent! OR his money :)
Lisa :) It’s that first bite - if you can be lured into that, you’re lost! Of course your tastebuds may feel differently :)
Since you live too far for me to drop in for dinner, I guess I have to get Dave to make some for me. :)
We have a package of that exact tortellini on the counter waiting to be made into a yummy meal.
Sarra - LOL! Poor Dave… That tortellini is good stuff though :)
