quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Sausage, cherry tomatoes and pasta

This is easy and real good. Serves 2

Cook up 2-4 Italian sausages. Sweet or hot, whatever you like. Fry them in a pan until firm and clear oil comes out of a poke with a fork, then a little more. Let them cool a little and slice them up.

Boil up about a half pound of pasta. Penne works good with this, but any pasta will do. Go with what you like.


About 8 or nine cherry tomatoes
Salt and pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
about 3/4 tbsp. basil


Heat 1 swirl of olive oil in a frying pan medium-high. Add tomatoes, and season with salt and pepper. Saute, tossing frequently, until tomatoes soften and skins just begin to wrinkle, about 2 minutes. Stir in the garlic and continue to toss the pan until garlic is fragrant. Off heat, stir in the basil 1 more swirl of olive oil. Combine the pasta, tomatoes and sausage in the frying pan. Toss it all together.

SERVE IT UP!!! With some good crusty Italian bread and some Chianti!!