aKathy's What's for Dinner 6/5

karenlou my 3 basil plants are in the vegetable garden because they grow better with tomatoes. I also have a lot of rosemary. It's in a pot because it can get invasive. So I do have those herbs too just not in this planter box.

I can't wait to cook with fresh herbs.

Hi dinner peas! We are having some kind of pasta with a mushroom sausage sauce.

One of my eyes has been irritated all day since the wee hours of the morning, so I went without contacts today and my muscles are all tensed up from hovering over the keyboard so I could be closer to both monitors for work. And I had to give a training refresher this morning for some of our team members who are going to be taking on new tasks in the next few weeks. I made the commitment several days ago and I didn't want to reschedule at the last minute. Our team generally has a lot of meetings that we're required to be on so we had time today and tomorrow. Turns out some of them had not yet read all the documentation I sent out 2 days ago...I put them on notice that they will be expected to have read it tomorrow and bring their questions. <eyeroll>...I dislike when co-workers are not prepared! Making a Target run after dinner to get some eye drops and hopefully tomorrow will be better.

cadoodlebug - ITA about trying to get the Little Mermaid photo! Yours came out really beautiful! It was overcast the day we were there, so no sparkling blue water in my pic, it was sort of gray to match the gray sky. Oh well! We also visited the castle. DD was fascinated by the sheer number of bicycles all over Copenhagen!

jeremysgirl - your plants look great! Ours are getting their fair share of rain (hot & stormy again today) but are not nearly as big as yours yet.

After jeremysgirl's thread about garlic the other day, I finally decided to make Spicy Garlic Butter Linguini, which is a Marion Grasby recipe. I had bought the garlic bulbs a couple of weeks ago to make this dish, and just hadn't gotten around to it. The recipe uses 10 cloves, both sliced and chopped, and that's just for two people! This is one recipe that you absolutely need to use fresh garlic rather than from a jar, so I didn't need to curse Anthony Bourdain this time. 

Then DSO told me that he and his girlfriend would be home for dinner, and I could not be bothered slicing and chopping up another 10 cloves of garlic, so for them I made Kevin & Amanda's Spicy Sausage Pasta. As always, I used chorizo, because you can't get turkey sausage here. 

We found that in all the Scandinavian countries! When my pictures of our free day in Copenhagen appear, bicycles will be included!