An e-mail from my Uncle Ned on how to cook his famous dish:
"Here's how I cook it: I start out sauteeing the onions, and when they're just getting brown, I add the garlic and mushrooms (and if you can find mushrooms with a lot of flavor, like shiitake, it's worth the extra bucks). The garlic and mushrooms get brown quickly, then I add tomatoes, broccoli and zucchini (I just cut up the tomatoes into small chunks and let them kind of boil down into sauce). When everything else is ready, I throw in the marinated artichoke hearts just to heat them up -- they lose their flavor quickly if you cook them. I cook the sausage separately (cut it up into small pieces and sautee it or broil it) and add it with the art hearts, cook the pasta (al dente -- just past rubbery) and then mix it all together."
Uhh, sounds easy for a beginner cook with experience only in pouring cereal and making grilled cheese.
As part of Adam's Christmas gift, I want to surprise him by cooking a romantic (and edible) dinner. And Uncle Ned's pasta dish - or, as we like to call it "cocina sabrosa" - came to mind as the perfect meal Adam and I could share together.
I'm going to give it a trial run - with my mother close at hand, prepared with a fire extinguisher - just to see how badly I screw it up. Then, hopefully, it will be perfect by the time Adam gets home for Christmas!
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Chop up all the veggies first so you're ready to add the ingredients to the pan in the order he suggests. You don't want to try to cook and chop simultaneously, you'll end up burning stuff and the dish won't turn out right.
It's a simple mistake most first time cooks make...and the biggest reason people burn stuff. If all your ingredients are good to go, you'll make Adam (and your mom) the perfect dinner!
Good luck!!!
Haha thank you! I need all of the advice I can possibly get. I'll let you know how it turns out :)
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