Grilled Tortellini and Sausage on the Blackstone

When Mandy was in high school, she took an art class where they had to make screen-printed t-shirts. She made a couple of them, and that’s all that she wore. It was weird. One of them had a purple armadillo on it with the words ‘hootenanny’, but nobody really understood what it meant. She also made us matching Beatles logo shirts that I am too fat for now. Mainly, because I make recipes like this:

Grilled Tortellini and Sausage on the Blackstone

Ingredients:

2 lbs frozen tortellini

1 Polska Kielbasa sausage, sliced

8 oz sliced mushrooms

8 oz fresh spinach

halved cherry tomatoes

A handful or two of mozz cheese

1. Preheat your Blackstone to medium heat. If you don’t have a Blackstone, move on to step two. If you have a Blackstone, skip ahead to step 3.
2. Sit silently in the corner and ponder all your regrets in life, including why you don’t have a Blackstone. Then go buy a Blackstone.
3. Put your sliced sausage on the ‘stone. After a minute or two, throw on your frozen linis and drizzle a little olive oil to help with the cooking.

It helps to have a wiener dog watch the sausage cook on the Blackstone. A good chef is only as good as his lookout. We only do half a Kielbasa because Mandy doesn’t like a lot of sausage in hers.

4. Let it cook for a few minutes, then give it a good shakedown on the ‘stone. Add your mushrooms on the side, give ’em a little olive oil, and let ’em cook. When the shrooms are done, combine the three.

Magic is happening.

5. Add in your spinach, let it sautee, and combine.

Cook that spinach down, baby.

6. Add your halved cherry tomatoes. When your linis are starting to brown, sprinkle on your handfuls of mozz cheese. Combine to accentuate the gooiness. Serve hot. (This also heats up really well for leftovers. We intentionally make too much…)

Mix it up to get that gooey, mozzy goodness all over.

There are a lot of different subs you could put in this: zucchini, red onion, bell pepper, fresh garlic, artichoke hearts, and different proteins (chicken, shrimp, steak)…mix it up for a different meal every time.