Cooking: Jamie Oliver's Sausage & Zucchini Carbonara

I finally tried out the Jamie Oliver iPad app last night to make dinner — Sausage and Zucchini Carbonara. (I joked to my husband that I wished we had the technology where a virtual Jamie Oliver would be standing right there in my kitchen while I cooked.)

Effort: mostly painless. The ingredients were easy to get (all from Trader Joe's), while prep and cleanup were easy to manage.

Result: Yum. The zucchini adds a nice, lighter compliment to the sausage and bacon. However, it's still a  fairly heavy dish. The cream and egg in the sauce, along with the pasta, sit quite heavily in your belly afterwards. I made the dish to serve four, and even though my husband took seconds last night, I think there are at least another two to three servings left.