Linguine with Sausage and Broccoli

This recipe (with a much prettier picture than mine) was featured in a Food 52 e-mail, described as being "even easier than going through the 'hassle of picking something up,'" so when I stopped for groceries after school, I bought broccoli and Italian sausage even though I wasn't going to have a lot of cooking time that night.

It was delicious. Of course it was delicious: pasta tossed with flavorful ingredients and topped with cheese is always delicious. But anyone who describes this as notably quick and easy puts considerably more effort into everyday meals than I do (and I probably put a higher than average amount of time into everyday meals).

Honestly, how many people, on an average weeknight, want to first reduce wine and then reduce broth? To use two separate fats (olive oil and butter, and not because there's high-temperature sauteing going on that butter alone can't handle) in one simple pasta dish (in which the sausage overpowers the flavor of both in any case)? To use two separate pots to boil the linguine and the broccoli (in addition to a saute pan for the sausage and the sauce)?

I didn't actually do the last one. I just cooked the broccoli in the pasta pot while I was tossing the linguine with the sauce and adding butter and reserved pasta water. I also ignored the part about using half sweet and half hot sausage; the sausage was prepackaged by the pound and I didn't want to buy twice what I needed (and I bought bulk sausage so I didn't have to bother with the step of removing it from the casings).

So despite thoroughly enjoying it, I doubt I'll make it again. If I want linguine with sausage and broccoli, I'll just cook the sausage and broccoli in olive oil in a saute pan (or the broccoli in with the linguine) and add plenty of chopped garlic. If I have wine already open and handy, I might reduce some wine, especially if the sausage has browned onto the pan. Tossed with linguine and topped with cheese, it will be just as good and ready more quickly, and I won't have as much to clean up afterwards.