Adventure Pasta

I haven't got many pictures of this because I didn't plan to write it up -- I was just throwing things in the pan to make a big batch of food for the week. The primary motivation for my ingredient choices was using the last bits of things that were almost gone. That said, it turned out very well. Keep in mind that I was just throwing this together as I went; all quantities are extremely approximate.

Ingredients:

2	half-empty packages spaghetti noodles
1/3 pound	bacon, diced
1/2 pound	sausage (I used chorizo), chunked
1	large red onion, chopped
2 cloves	garlic, minced
1	green bell pepper, chopped
10	kalamata olives, sliced
5	sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
1 jar	tomato sauce
1 handful	pine nuts, chopped
1 handful	pumpkin seeds, chopped
1 handful	slivered almonds
1 tsp	crushed red pepper
1 tsp	basil
1 tsp	oregano
3 tsp	parmesan cheese, grated

Procedure:
The first thing to do is get some grease. Throw your meat into the pan and stir it around until it's basically done and has given off enough oil to fry the rest of your ingredients. If necessary, supplement your meat oil with olive oil. Once the sausage is mostly done, add all of the ingredients except for the pasta, sauce, and cheese.

Start the pasta in a separate pan. Keep in mind that you'll want to stop cooking it when it's still a little firm; it will finish up in the other pan.

Stir everything around while your pasta cooks, seasoning to taste with whatever's handy. When your pasta is nearly done, add the pasta sauce to your stir fry to warm up. Drain the pasta and add it. Decrease the heat to avoid drying out your sauce while you stir everything together. This makes a lot of food, so it's likely your pan is full to the brim and stirring is difficult. Be patient. As you stir, add the cheese.



This made me lunches for an entire week, as well as a few dinners.

The one ingredient I felt I should have added was wine. We have cooking wine sitting right above the stove. I just didn't think to add it. It ended up a little dry and this would have remedied it. Overall, though, a very tasty and exciting dish.