Confident Kitchen

OK I’ve been kind of winging it a lot lately. There seems to be stages of cooking. First stage: tackling relatively easy recipes with precise measurements. Then comes the experimentation stage where you start subbing ingredients for those you would rather have, plus forgoing accurate measurements of spices after learning from experience. Then there is the stage where you look in the fridge, see what you have on hand, and toss stuff together because you’ve learned the groups of ingredients that taste well together. It’s taken me almost 5 years to reach this stage, honestly, and I’ve been coming up with some pretty fantastic stuff (and frankly, a few very meh/bland dishes as well!). One night recently, I tried to bake some veggies that just didn’t fit, and we ended up at the local burrito joint at 10:30pm for dinner. Mistakes happen, and it’s not the end of the world!

I had some feta cheese, some greens from the local farmer’s market (the vendor said they would be great sauteed), and some really nice olives in the fridge. I also had the last bit of a batch of homemade Italian sausage to use up as well.

Ingredients:

• feta cheese (maybe 1/6 cup)
• greens that can be sauteed (spinach, chard, etc)
• olives (any kind you prefer, pitted)
• linguine
• sausage

Cook the linguine.  Cook the sausage, add greens until wilted.  Layer linguine, sausage and greens, olives, and feta cheese.  Enjoy hot.