Art of the Odd

I don’t remember when Noirbettie posted that she’d just boiled spaghetti in wine and it was the Best Thing Ever, but she did, and then I did, and it was.

I immediately combined this Drunken Spaghetti with another great pasta recipe, Pasta with Cauliflower, Walnuts and Feta. (Seriously, if you’ve never sauteed cauliflower, go get yourself some olive oil and some cauliflower and give it a shot. “Wow,” I said, the first time I tried it. “So this is what cauliflower is supposed to taste like.” I don’t think I’ve steamed one since.)

Tonight, though, I asked NovySan if he’d rather have walnuts or sausage in his pasta. “Sausage,” he said. (I should have known it was a silly question.)

I figured out awhile ago that if I drop the sausage, which we keep in the freezer, into the pasta water, it’s fully thawed by the time the water starts to boil. Except tonight I wasn’t boiling water – I was boiling water mixed with wine.

Have you ever had sausage boiled in wine? Yes? Then you know what I’m talking about. No? Okay, put down the head of cauliflower – it’ll keep. You have to try this immediately. The skin goes purple, and the sausage picks up the most amazing flavor.

Now, pick up the cauliflower again and throw it together with the sausage and whatever else you’ve got (I had zucchini and asparagus and onion and the oil left over from making tortilla Espanola Monday night), and enjoy your meal.

The Slackmistress loves wine. Her husband even calls her “The girl with the boots and the wine.”

Not only does the woman love wine, she loves blogging. And Twitter. And Facebook. And Flickr. She’s even LinkedIn.

She also likes making money. (Hey, who doesn’t?) And so of course she wants to get A Really Goode Job, as the social media consultant for Murphy-Goode Winery.

And that’s where you come in.

Click the pic (logo at bottom created by Jason Permenter), watch the video, and enter your email address to fave it. (There’s no need to withhold your clicks – you can fave more than one. So if you really want to see the Slackmistress in a knock-down, drag-out, half-clothed cage fight to the death with another applicant… Yeah. I’d just keep that to myself, if I were you.)

That’s it.

You’re all done.

Have some wine. You deserve it.

*Tune in next week for a brief synopsis of the no-doubt entertaining spam comments generated by this title.

**And a big thanks to the fabulous Claire de Lunacy for teaching me how link titles work.