My favorite pasta dish

is Broccoli Rabe and Sausage. I was thrilled when the produce box arrived with some broccoli rabe and I remembered that I had just bought some sweet Italian sausage and pasta at the Trader Joe's the other day. Chris grows broccoli rabe in the garden, and we've already had some this season, but this broccoli rabe was different - it was purple:



It actually turned that water I blanched it in purple.

Along with a salad of watercress and mache, dried cherries and candied walnuts:



We had this delish dish of Broccoli Rabe and Sausage with Taglietelli: