Today my wife helped me to cook sausage carbonara
The dishes cooked by my sweet wife is so delicious that I’m becoming a hippopotamus day by day. She ask me to go to the gym but have you ever seen any hippopotamus in the gym?
So, she devised a plan and stopped cooking and started fasting. You know, a hippopotamus also can’t see his sweetheart fasting and I tried to win the title of the most romantic hippo in the world.
As a result, instead of going to gym, I just entered into our kitchen. I was thinking about what a hippo can cook and sausage appeared on top of the list. My sweetheart is just crazy about sausage and I knew that by the time I arrange all the ingredients on the countertop, she’ll be here.
I started searching for a simple and easy sausage recipe on YouTube and got the following list of ingredients-
• 4 good-quality organic Italian sausages
• olive oil
• 4 slices of thickly cut pancetta
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 500g dried linguine
• 4 large free-range or organic egg yolks
• 100ml double cream
• 100g freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• zest of 1 lemon
• a sprig of fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
• extra virgin olive oil
Everything was available in the kitchen but extra virgin olive oil. So, I was thinking to skip the recipe. But, thanks God! she come to me and started taking care of the rest keeping her voice shouting…… You know, women looks so romantic when they are cooking. I didn’t miss the chance to enjoy her beauty in the kitchen. Anyway, here’s the cooking details of that simple sausage carbonara-
She handed me a knife and asked me to slit the sausage skins lengthways and pop all the meat out. Then, using her wet hands, she started rolling little balls of sausage meat about the size of large marbles. By the time, she put a frying pan on the stove filled with olive oil.
Within a few minutes the pan becomes heated and she asked me to gently fry the sausage meatballs until golden brown all over. Then she add the pancetta and continue cooking for a couple of minutes, until it’s golden. While this is cooking, she bring a pan of salted water to the boil, add the linguine, and cook according to the packet instructions.
She also told me to whip up the egg yolks, cream, half the Parmesan, the lemon zest and parsley in a large ceramic bowl. When the pasta is cooked, she drain it in a colander, reserving a little of the cooking water, and immediately toss it quickly with the egg mixture back in the pasta pan. Add the hot sausage meatballs and toss everything together. I just become speechless watching her fastness.
Then start cooking eggs delicately from the heat of the linguine. It was just enough for it to thicken and not scramble. This is the first time I noticed that her voice becomes low and full with romance.
She told me so softly that sauce should be smooth and silky like her lips and if the pasta becomes a little gooey, then I should add a few spoonfuls of the reserved cooking water to loosen it slightly. Now it becomes clear to me that why did she keep those cooking water. Anyway, she sprinkled over the rest of the parmesan, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and finally broke her fasting without making any delay.
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