Feeding Friends!

I finally had friends from college visit the past two weekends. There are so many amazing/delicious places to eat around here but I decided one night of each of their visits I would make dinner since it was one of my favorite things to do for my friends in college.

Visit one: Pesto Linguini with Salad and Garlic Bread

Garlic Bread: Cut three pieces of fresh sour dough bread, slather on some butter and sprinkle with garlic salt. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.

Salad: You can put anything you want in a salad. This one included: 3 cups mixed greens, 1/2 avocado chopped, tomato chopped, 1/4 cup craisins, olive oil and vinegar dressing

Pasta:
-Cook 1/2 box linguini pasta
-1/4 cup pesto
-2 Tbs parm cheese
-2 Tbs EVOO

Once you cook the pasta throw it back on the stove and mix remaining ingredients in continuously until the noodle are covered. Enjoy!

Visit two: Chicken sausage, rice and salad

A less inventive meal than my pesto creation but I did try something new and awesome with the sausage!

Rice: Uncle Ben's garden vegetable rice (1 cup each serving)

Salad: croutons, feta, tomato mixed with 2 cups fresh greens. Drizzled with 1 Tbs of balsamic dressing

Sausage: feta and spinach chicken sausage

I heated these on the skillet for about ten minutes on medium. I next added about 1 Tbs of olive oil and vinegar dressing. The dressing will start to bubble so make sure to keep the sausages moving so all sides are covered. Once the sausage has a nice crisp to the outside you can take them out and roll them in a paper towel to remove the grease.