A pasta dish

I love pasta. Maybe it has to do with being an athlete, and hence being fed pasta at every turn, maybe it has to do with happy memories of pasta parties during highschool xc running, maybe just the convenience of boiling water and having food on your plate six minutes later, or because it was the first food I learned how to cook. I just love it. We don't really eat it that much, probably because it somehow always feels like a cop-out in terms of making dinner - you didn't have enough time to prepare a "proper" dinner and so you resort to just boiling water. But sometimes, we make awesome things to go on top of the pasta, and then it feels like more of a "real" dinner. With green things and stuff. Because no meal is complete without green things. Of course, when we were in Italy, I was totally happy to eat some form of pasta for every meal!

In this case, we were using up the duck sausage that Ed had gotten at Savenor's, and we had some fresh fava beans and morels (fried in butter, of course), and a light white wine sauce on top, altogether it was quite a delicious pasta dish. As they always are...

There's no recipe here. Cook the fava beans in boiling water for 3 minutes, drain them and shock them in cold water, then peel the outer covering thing. Fry morels in butter. Fry up some sausage slices so they get brown. Fry up a shallot, in butter, add some white wine to the butter (of which you need lots) and reduce it for a bit, while you boil your pasta. Toss your done pasta with the butter-wine sauce, serve immediately, glop everything else on top, add some chiffonaded basil. I thought copious quantities of grated parmesan cheese was an excellent addition. Enjoy!