PORKY RAVIOLI

I made a random thing. I do that, sometimes, just add some pasta here, some meat there, a sauce without a label. Pure culinary creation. Been doing it since college, except back then I used more salt and booze.

It usually comes out pretty bad. Seriously inedible.

Not this one. It came out great. I'm going to make it again, mostly because it's quick, easy, and can be done on a two-burner portable stove on a tailgate deep in the woods, which isn't far from what really happened.

I made this at camp and took no pictures, because I was hungry and didn't think of it. But this is the leftovers I nuked after getting back home. It froze and thawed extremely well. Just as good as fresh.

Ingredients:

• A bag of cheese ravioli. I can't remember what I bought, since I threw the bag away. But it looked fancy and wasn't frozen. Maybe a pound of ravioli.

• 1/2 pound of regular Jimmy Dean's bulk pork sausage.

• 1 small onion, diced.

• 1 small can of sliced mushrooms. Fresh would have been better.

• 1 can of diced tomatoes, drained. I got a can with garlic and herbs already in it, and that was plenty of flavor for me. If you want more herbs, add whatever makes your socks go up and down.

Instructions

1. Put water on to boil with a dash of oil and salt, like regular pasta. Follow the instructions on the bag of ravioli.

2. In a cast iron skillet with a dash of oil, sauté the onions until transparent. Add the mushrooms and the sausage. If you're manly, use more sausage. I did a whole pound, but that turned out ridiculous and fed some to the dog. I know. That's horrible. But she liked it.

3. When the water boils, add the ravioli and follow the instructions. You are following the instructions, right? Real men may not need instructions, but they'll eat shoe leather and burnt pancakes, too.

4. When the sausage and stuff are fully browned, add the drained can of diced tomatoes to the skillet. Continue to cook until hot.

5. Take the ravioli out and let them drain.

6. Take the skillet off the burner and mix the ravioli into the sausage stuff.

Bam, you have Porky Ravioli. The whole thing took like 20 minutes. But that was my first time with this recipe. It'll take 15 minutes next time.

Feeds two, unless one is a teen boy. Then quadruple everything. Maybe more.