Penne with Sage Cream sauce

  Tonight for dinner I did pasta again.  It is such as easy go to you can do so much with it and well the kids don't put up a fight. For the record a lesson learned tonight is to not crush garlic then use the finger you have a hang nail on to dig it out.  It will burn like acid.  Not fun.  To top it off don't yank it out and stick it in your mouth, raw garlic is good massive dose of raw garlic to your tongue not good.

Penne with Sage Cream Sauce

1 box of Mezze Penne (or regular Penne I have kids they like the baby Penne)
1 medium zucchini diced
1 medium yellow squash diced
4 pieces of proscuitto
1 medium onion diced
3 cloves of garlic crushed or diced fine your choice.
3 tablespoons of butter
a shot of white wine
2 cups of water
1tablespoon of Chicken base
4 sage leaves
3/4 cup of cream
1/2 cup of grated or shredded Parmesan.

Start the water boiling to add the Penne Later.  While putting together your sauce you will be cooking your pasta, come on you knew this.

Melt 1 tablespoon of butter when the pan is hot crisp up the proscuitto.  I did all of mine in a large dutch oven cause you are gonna bake this if you want once its put together.  Take the meat out add the onions.  Cook till brown. If you need to add another tablespoon of butter add it now.  Layer your flavors so add a little salt so that each layer will taste seasoned.  Once the onions are brown add the zucchini and squash.  After cooking for a few minutes add the garlic and a tad more salt.  Let it get brown, then put a good glug of white wine in there.  Cook for a few minutes, then add the tomato paste cook for a minute then add the water and chicken base.
   Let this simmer, check your pasta water add if its ready.  Add the 4 sage leaves, more if you like, you are gonna fish them out later so no need to chop them.  Unless you want to leave them in there then chop away  When your pasta is almost al dente reduce heat to low, add the cheese and the cream.  Take the pasta and drain it.  Fish out sage leaves if that is your choice, add pasta to the cream sauce.  Crumble the proscuitto and add to the pasta stir to combine.  Now what I did was take the other tablespoon of butter melt it and mix with some bread crumbs and paremesan and sprinkle on top and brown it.  Eat with yummy garlic bread.