Alfredo Sauce

I use this simple recipe for pasta dishes, including lasagna and pasta with fish or pasta with bacon. It is both quick and simple. The only caution is be careful not to burn the sauce while simmering.

Ingredients

• 3 TBL butter
• 1 garlic clove – minced
• 8 oz. heavy whipping cream
• 4 oz. dry white wine
• 5 oz. grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese – divided
• 1/4 cup grated Romano cheese
• 2 tsp basil
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp salt
• Dash ground black pepper
• Dash ground nutmeg
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley – minced
• Optional Italian Sausage
  • 1 lb mild Italian sausage – thawed
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds

Process

1. Mise en Place – gather and prepare your ingredients before starting.
2. Heat saucepan over Medium heat.
3. Melt butter in saucepan once pan in hot.
4. Add cream and simmer for 5 minutes careful not to burn the cream.
5. Remove from heat.
6. Add garlic and cheese and whisk quickly, heating through
7. Stir in parsley
8. Mix in any meat you may want to use, such as bacon, shrimp*, Italian sausage
9. Serve over pasta or in lasagna, or etc.

Note 1: if you are serving a pasta shrimp dish, then between steps 3 and 4, using a different pan, sauté the shrimp in either butter or olive oil. Add shrimp after butter/oil is hot. Cook on one side for 2 minutes and on the other side 1 minute. Add to sauce in step 7.

Note 2: A good trick to taking your mild Italian sausage up a notch is to add fennel when you cook it.