Snowy Day in Connecticut (Pasta with Hot Italian Sausage, Minced Broccoli, Garlic and Parmesan)

Please excuse the snow photography...

 

It's yet another snow day here in the wilds of Connecticut.  I'm about to open a production of Much Ado at the Connecticut Rep... the same theater where I did O Beautiful a little over a year ago. This production is directed by the wonderful Paul Mullins and is set in the '50s:  Ella, Frank, Newport... lots of fun.

So.  No rehearsal tonight because UConn is closed because of the storm... and I needed comfort food.

With a lot of garlic and red pepper, because many of the student members of the cast are sick.

I can't afford to catch the disease because I'm scheduled to cook on the local Fox morning show to promote the show... and I'm hosting Much Ado About Dinner at a local hotel, an evening of good food and (hopefully) good stories about my twin passions:  Shakespeare and food.

So.  I made some pasta... sautéed some hot Italian sausage with about 7 cloves of garlic... added 2 cups of minced broccoli and some pasta water.  This combo is so strongly flavored that it takes only a small shower of Parmesan.  A wonderful snow day meal.

Tomorrow.....back to rehearsal!

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