I have found my new favorite pasta dish, sorry Giada, and I cannot wait to share it with you all! Yesterday I was searching Pinterest for a quick, easy, and comforting pasta dish to make and hit the jackpot with Yellow Bliss Road's One Pot Cheesy Smoked Sausage & Pasta Skillet!
All I can say is that it is Amazing with a capital A. There's no other way to describe the deliciousness that it is. W. even commented it is hands down the best meal I've cooked for him to date. For a guy who says everything I make is "good," you know that this dish is the bee's knees :)
I did make slight variations to the original recipe, which you can find at the Yellow Bliss Road. The original calls for only 8 oz of pasta, but I didn't think it would be enough for two people and leftovers. Instead, I eyeballed about 2 cups (16 oz). But, really, I just tossed in 4 handfuls and a few extra noodles for good measure. I was worried doubling the amount of pasta would dry out the dish and cut down on the amount of sauce, but it ended up having a soupy consistency - this could be due to the fact that I didn't drain the tomatoes before tossing them in. I also added the whole bag of cheese, two cups, instead of one cup, like the recipe calls for. As I've said before, I LOVE cheese, so I figured the cheesier the better!
The original recipe calls for cream or milk, I ended up using cream but am going to use organic 1% milk next time to lighten up the dish a bit. Sticking to 1 cup of cheese is another thing I will do next time, as well as draining the tomatoes. W. and I both loved the creamy, almost soup-like consistency of this dish, but I am going to see if draining the tomatoes will help thicken up the sauce.
Even though this pasta turned out soupy, it still oozed flavor. This definitely surprised me since most soupy sauces don't stick to the noodles well or seem to have a lot of taste. But, since the noodles cook in the pot with the milk and tomatoes, they soak up all of the flavor. Moral of the story, if draining the tomato juice doesn't thicken the sauce, this will still be a repeat in my book!
Enjoy!
All I can say is that it is Amazing with a capital A. There's no other way to describe the deliciousness that it is. W. even commented it is hands down the best meal I've cooked for him to date. For a guy who says everything I make is "good," you know that this dish is the bee's knees :)
I did make slight variations to the original recipe, which you can find at the Yellow Bliss Road. The original calls for only 8 oz of pasta, but I didn't think it would be enough for two people and leftovers. Instead, I eyeballed about 2 cups (16 oz). But, really, I just tossed in 4 handfuls and a few extra noodles for good measure. I was worried doubling the amount of pasta would dry out the dish and cut down on the amount of sauce, but it ended up having a soupy consistency - this could be due to the fact that I didn't drain the tomatoes before tossing them in. I also added the whole bag of cheese, two cups, instead of one cup, like the recipe calls for. As I've said before, I LOVE cheese, so I figured the cheesier the better!
The original recipe calls for cream or milk, I ended up using cream but am going to use organic 1% milk next time to lighten up the dish a bit. Sticking to 1 cup of cheese is another thing I will do next time, as well as draining the tomatoes. W. and I both loved the creamy, almost soup-like consistency of this dish, but I am going to see if draining the tomatoes will help thicken up the sauce.
Even though this pasta turned out soupy, it still oozed flavor. This definitely surprised me since most soupy sauces don't stick to the noodles well or seem to have a lot of taste. But, since the noodles cook in the pot with the milk and tomatoes, they soak up all of the flavor. Moral of the story, if draining the tomato juice doesn't thicken the sauce, this will still be a repeat in my book!
Enjoy!