Mama Iona's Cuisine Italliano

I love to cook. Sometimes I am quite good at it... and then there are other times I’d rather not get into right now. Today was a good one. I craved Italian food but my sausage was not “Italian,” and I forgot I had roma tomatoes until after we had eaten.

So, we had a whole wheat fettucini, boiled to tenderness (al dente in whole wheat pasta is awful!) and tossed with a tad of EVOO (extra virgin olive oil).

The sauce included sausage, canned mini-diced tomatoes with garlic and olive oil, onions (sauteed with the meat), tomato paste, cheeses (pecorino romano, ricotta, parmesan, provolone, mozzarella), garlic, marjoram, oregano, fennel seed, rosemary and sea salt.

We also had a nice focaccia topped with fresh fennel, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and a garlic butter rub. Hot out of the oven, the outside was very crusty and the inside robustly chewy.

It was a great meal! I wish I had invited folks over.