Dinner-October 24, 2011 Macaroni with an Italian Sausage and three pepper and fuzzy tomato sauce

We worked late and rode our bike until almost 7:00 p.m. so we wanted a quick dinner.

I chopped up the two Italian Sweet Sausages I had purchased at Sunflower Market on Thursday, October 20, 2011.

I then chopped up one-half of one of the pimientos and one of the Italian sweet peppers bought at the Taos Farmers' Market on Saturday October 15 and one old slightly shrivelled up yellow cherry pepper from Suzette's garden in Los Lunas, plus about one-fourth of a yellow onion.  Suzette quartered several yellow fuzzy peach tomatoes we had also purchased from Amayo Farms on October 22, 2011.

Suzette then sauteed all the sauce ingredients with a dash of salt as she boiled some elbow macaroni while I cut up a bunch of frilly mustard greens we also had bought from Amayo Farms at the Farmers' Market on October 22. 

I had never seen a yellow fuzzy peach tomatoes before.  They were quite lovely.  They seemed to shimmer like jewels as their slightly translucent skin and tiny hairs caught the bright morning light.

Suzette got out the wok and put some Spanish olive oil into it and then I smashed a clove of garlic and fried it in the heated olive oil for a minute while I fetched a bottle of chianti from the wine celler.  We then threw the mustard greens into the wok and cooked them while Suzette drained the cooked macaroni.  The mustard greens were tougher than I had thought they would be so we turned up the heat and tossed them to coat them with olive oil and then pushed them down into the wok and put a wok cover over them to steam them a bit.  After a few minutes the mustard greens collapsed.

We piled some of the cooked macaroni in a pasta bowl and mounded on it some of the sausage, tomato and pepper mixture and placed some of the sauteed/sweated mustard greens on the side of the mound in the bowl.

I heated some fresh bread we had gotten at the 20-30 Club Equestrian Event on Sunday in the microwave and placed in on the table in a bread basket. 

A lovely and very quick meal that we ate in front of the TV while we watched the Antiques Roadshow.