Easy Sun Dried Tomato & Sausage Orzo!

Hi My Loves!!

I recently cooked a super yummy dinner and showed it to you guys on our daily vlog channel . It was so good and I figured it would be a crime not to share how to make this recipe :) This was a new favorite and is very filling as well. I think this would feed a family of 4 easily. We had it for dinner and then left overs for dinner the next night too and it reheated really well. We all really loved it (which some of you know can sometimes be hard to please a toddler at dinner time)....

Here's the finished result! SO YUM!!!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

1 Jar Classico Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

Pine Nuts (I used half of the bag)

1 Pack of Aidells Italian Style Mozzaella & Garlic Chicken Sausage sliced

1 lb of Orzo Pasta

1 Orange Bell Pepper diced

1 Onion diced

Asparagus cut into 1 inch pieces

Olive Oil

1. Get 2 separate pots of water boiling with olive oil and salt

2. Add diced onions and bell peppers to a separate pan with olive oil and cook on medium heat until onions are transparent

3. Add orzo to water and cook until al dente (about 9 minutes)

4. While the orzo is boiling, add your sausages, sun dried tomato pesto and pine nuts to the onions and peppers and stir until everything is coated with the pesto sauce.

5. Turn heat down to low and keep stirring occasionally.

6. The last 5 minutes of waiting for your orzo to cook, add asparagus to the other pot of boiling water and boil for about 4 minutes.

7. Drain pasta and asparagus and add to sausage mixture.

8. Give everything a good mix and serve.

We added parmesan cheese to ours and it was super delicious. You could just add the aspragus and cook it in with the bell peppers if you wanted but I don't like the way the feel as far as texture goes when I do that, that's why I boil them first. You could always steam them too... however you like to cook them :)

The most time consuming part is just chopping up the veggies and sausage. Other than that this is pretty easy and fairly quick. It took me about 1/2 hour all together to make.

Hope you like it!

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Pesto, Tomato & Goat Cheese Pasta!

Hi My Loves!!!

If you follow me on Instagram, then you will have seen this picture of our dinner last night.

For those of you who asked, here is the recipe. It's hardly even a recipe, as it's so easy to make!

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

1 lb Penne Pasta

1 Jar Classico Basil Pesto 

1 small container of Crumbled Goat Cheese

3 On The Vine Tomatoes diced

Salt 

Olive Oil

DIRECTIONS:

1.) Boil your water with salt & olive oil

2.) Add you pasta to pot and cook for about 10 minutes or until al dente

3.) Drain pasta and add back to pot

4.) Add full jar of pesto, whole container of goats cheese and diced tomatoes and mix

5.) EAT IT! :)

That's it! So quick and super easy and it's sooooo yummy! This makes enough for us 3 to eat as well as left overs for the next day. It's super filling too :)

Thanks for reading!

Incase you missed it today, here's our latest vlog from yesterday.

Hope you all have a fab weekend :)

Quick & Easy Pasta!

Hi My Loves!!!

I made this pasta the other night and it was so yummy and so easy to make. This is a great meal if you don't have much time and only have a few ingredients. Also great for people who are vegetarian's or someone who just wants a meal without meat :)

Normally when I make this I add goat cheese, however when you are preggy it's not recommended to eat goat cheese (I'm sure it's fine but I chose not to use any)..... I also LOVE adding pine nuts to mine as well but we didn't have any so ours was quite basic. I would normally add onions too, but we din't have any. Those are some great additions to this meal!

Jay likes to add some parmesan to his ;)

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Thin Spaghetti

 3- Garlic Cloves

6- On The Vine Tomatoes 

Asparagus

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Salt & Pepper

Basil

Butter

DIRECTIONS:

1. In two separate pots, boil water with a splash of olive oil (one for pasta, one for asparagus)

2. Once boiling add pasta (usually takes about 10-11 minutes for pasta to be done)

3. Cut asparagus into 1 inch bites and add to boiling water about 6 minutes after you added the pasta. Asparagus cooks super quickly! Keep checking it, it usually takes about 5 minutes.

4. Chop garlic and add to another pan with some olive oil. Cook on medium/high for a few minutes.

4. Dice tomatoes and add to the pan with garlic and cook on medium, adding salt, pepper & basil to taste. Cook until tomatoes become more of a sauce/softer.

5. Drain pasta and put back into the pot, add some butter or olive oil (our olive oil had quite a strong flavor so I prefer to use butter for this part)

6. Add your tomatoes and asparagus (drain it first) and mix all together.

7. Plate it up, add your cheese (if you like) and DING..... it's done!

8. ENJOY :)

Thanks for reading!

Hope you all have an amazing Easter tomorrow ;)

 I know we will! I have a busy day ahead of me today, preparing everything for tomorrow!

Sam

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