Garbage Pasta Recipe

I have demonstrated time and again that deviating from a recipe always ends in a huge disaster. So, recently I decided to do away with recipes altogether and just come up with my own. Sounds like something that will be a roaring success, right? RIGHT! And I mean it. I hear you naysayers out there, “pfffting” on my genius plan. And just to prove that I perhaps can make a culinary delight every once and a while, I present thee with my recipe for Garbage Pasta.

First, an image to really get you salivating:

 Ok, um. Not the best photo. Really enbodies the “garbage” aspect of it’s name. That really wasn’t my intention. Hopefully you’re still with me and ready for the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Chorizo sausage (2)
• No salt added plain pasta sauce (Hunt’s makes a good one) approx 400ml
• half an eggplant diced
• one zucchini diced
• 1 cup of diced carrots
• 1/2 cup of chopped onions
• any other vegetables you have lying around
• whole wheat pasta

Directions:

Fry up the chorizo. Remove from heat. Then fry the onion. When it is soft add all the other veggies. When they’re looking almost soft add the cooked chorizo. Pour sauce on top and simmer. Throw that baby on some cooked whole wheat pasta and voila.

You can add spices too, but I find that chorizo has enough flavour for the whole dish.

Whole wheat pasta is key because it tastes hearty. And so is the eggplant. The other veggies are really there just for fun.

Why “Garbage?” Because I invented this recipe by throwing in everything I had in the fridge one day that was probably going to be thrown out if I didn’t find a use for them STAT!

It’s yummy, I promise.

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