Pasta and Sausage skillet, and my Mom

I made a simple dinner based on a recipe on the back of the sausage package. I like sausage a little, but it normally gives me really bad heartburn. I choose a sweet sausage to use, hoping that would not affect me as much. I boiled up a short pasta to al dente. While that was boiling I cooked the sausage in a little water in the cast iron pan. I added some cut up onion, a little garlic and a green onion-funny how you don't really see them in the photos though. Hmmmm. I added half a jar of spaghetti sauce that I had in the fridge, stirred in the cooked pasta, and let it simmer about 5 minutes to meld the flavors.

Dude loved it as evidenced by the photo! He ate the rest the next day for lunch.

I'm also including a picture of my Mom. I found my old neighbor on Facebook and he has checked out my blog-hi Damon! I had a picture of my Dad and Step-mom earlier, so I said I would post one of Mom too. He hasn't seen her in years. Well, he hasn't seen me in 25, so it has been longer since he has seen her I'm sure!

Hope to be back to a little more normal coming up this week. More cooking and baking. Of course, it is suppose to be really hot here in Minnesota this week, so we'll see about the baking! I was either watching TV or trolling blogs, but somewhere I saw someone doing something with pierogis and sausage. I bought some of each today and am going to try combining those. I also have the last of my rhubarb I want to do something with. I borrowed some cookbooks from the library and have found some yummy stuff in there too. Many plans, many plans.