Chorizo y Veggie Sautee

1. Throw as much or as little chorizo as you'd like in the pan. The goal is to get as much flavor (oil) out of the chorizo as possible, so it's up to you; if you want your sautee more meaty, pile it on! More veg? A two to three inch piece of salchicha will do.

2. Once you're able to break up your chorizo into bite-size pieces, it's time to start adding veggies. This isn't hard and I know you know how to do this, but just in case, I'll just give you an order to follow:

(*) The first thing I would usually tell you to do is add onions, just because they provide a good, meaty foundation of flavor when it comes to building any veggie dish. But I know you are not the biggest fan of onions so I leave it to you. If you decide to add onions, just chop them as coarsely or as finely as you like them and add a good handful to your pan.

i. Plantains (half a plaintain works fine)
ii. Mushrooms (half a cup is plenty)
iii. Spinach (half a cup at least)
iv. Tomatoes (just one lightly seeded will do just fine)

Salt and pepper to taste and you're done!

The best part about this dish is that the spinach is so silky and moist, that you don't really end up missing any sort of sauce.

If anything, add cheese. The best option would be any sort of good, light melting cheese like jack, mozzarella, muenster or provolone. But you can play with the flavor profile as much as you like with this dish. I mean did cheese really ever ruin anything?

Possible Substitutions/Variations:

• Don't have spinach? Steamed broccoli would work really well. Boiled cabbage also. Try iceberg lettuce cut into strips, just don't cook it, gross.
  

• Slice zucchini, yellow squash or grey squash paper thin and then add it at the same time you would the spinach and you'll end up with essentially the same effect.

• POTATOES. You can boil them or steam them for ten minutes just to get them going but lord would that be good or what. I would dice them first, boil them, and then add them as soon as it looks like half of your meet has cooked, then add the rest of your veggies.

• This dish is really great over pasta or rice, but if you want to broaden your horizons a little bit, try orzo. It's kind of like pasta that wants to be rice; so you get soft, pillowy rice-shaped bits of lovelyness in every bite.

• Want to brighten the flavor? Add lemon or lime juice ONLY at the end. These juices get bitter when cooked so hold off on the juice until the very end if you're going to add it. Also: lemon or lime zest, basil, parsley, cilantro.